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docs: fix description of restart-delay to mention max (1 minute)
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(docker 17.04 and up) added a maximum timeout of 1 minute to the
restart timeout.

This patch updates the documentation to match the current behavior.

Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
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thaJeztah committed Sep 22, 2021
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An ever increasing delay (double the previous delay, starting at 100
milliseconds) is added before each restart to prevent flooding the server.
An increasing delay (double the previous delay, starting at 100 milliseconds)
is added before each restart to prevent flooding the server.
This means the daemon will wait for 100 ms, then 200 ms, 400, 800, 1600,
and so on until either the `on-failure` limit is hit, or when you `docker stop`
or `docker rm -f` the container.
and so on until either the `on-failure` limit, the maximum delay of 1 minute is
hit, or when you `docker stop` or `docker rm -f` the container.

If a container is successfully restarted (the container is started and runs
for at least 10 seconds), the delay is reset to its default value of 100 ms.

You can specify the maximum amount of times Docker will try to restart the
container when using the **on-failure** policy. The default is that Docker
container when using the **on-failure** policy. The default is that Docker
will try forever to restart the container. The number of (attempted) restarts
for a container can be obtained via [`docker inspect`](commandline/inspect.md). For example, to get the number of restarts
for container "my-container";
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