# Restart sources

**URL:** <https://discuss.akka.io/t/restart-sources/2592>\
**Category:** Akka Streams & Alpakka\
**Created:** [November 1, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.akka.io/t/restart-sources/2592 "2018-11-01T15:04:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![2m](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.akka.io/2m/32/88_2.png) [@2m](https://discuss.akka.io/u/2m)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://discuss.akka.io/t/restart-sources/2592/4 "2018-11-22T17:11:30Z")

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Sorry for a late reply. The `resetDeadline` is useful on for sources that fail immediately. I can see how it can become useless with sources that take a while to fail. If you think having something that would control the total amount of restarts would be useful to you, please create a ticket in the akka issue tracker where we can discuss it further.

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