Very good question! As the documentation mentions, the old way was to use `setNumberOfExecutionRerties` but it has been replaced by `setRestartStrategy`.
If you don't configure anything, then your job will _not_ be restarted. However, if you have enabled checkpointing, then your application will be restarted infinitely. You can change that behavior with setRestartStrategy or setNumberOfExecutionRerties (wouldn't use it because it is deprecated). I'll update the documentation to provide more clarity. Thanks, Max On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Rohit Agarwal <ro...@cloudflare.com> wrote: > Hi, > > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.1/apis/streaming/fault_tolerance.html > says: > > Number of retries: The setNumberOfExecutionRerties() method defines how many > times the job is restarted after a failure. When checkpointing is activated, > but this value is not explicitly set, the job is restarted infinitely often. > > It also says: > The default restart strategy is set via Flink’s configuration file > flink-conf.yaml. The configuration parameter restart-strategy defines which > strategy is taken. Per default, the no-restart strategy is used. > > What is the default restart behavior when checkpointing is used? > > -- > Rohit Agarwal
