There are OTP strategies that are a "do not recover from crash", or more to your case "do not recover more than N times per Z timeslice". http://erlang.org/doc

There are OTP strategies that are a "do not recover from crash", or more to your case "do not recover more than N times per Z timeslice". http://erlang.org/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.html#maximum-restart-intensity http://erlang.org/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.html#maxim...