I have a task supervisor configured through a phoenix application, it will restart a failing child twice if it fails:

lib/nanoindie/application.ex

# children configuration on start
    children = [
      supervisor(Nanoindie.Repo, []),
      supervisor(NanoindieWeb.Endpoint, []),
      supervisor(Task.Supervisor, [[name: Nanoindie.TaskSupervisor, max_restarts: 2]]) # task supervisor
    ]

I add the children dynamically through start_link, what i do here is retrieving some info from blogs via web crawling

lib/nanoindie/jobs/blogs.exs

Enum.map Repo.all(Blog), fn(blog) ->
  Task.Supervisor.start_child(Nanoindie.TaskSupervisor, fn ->
      # web crawling
    end
  end, restart: :transient)
end

When i execute this, and for some reason one of the child fails, it will restart it normally, but if all restarts of this child fail it won’t run the rest of the processes

if i use restart: :temporary instead of restart: :transient it works fine, all processes run normally (without restarts)

Is this the right behavior?, i was reading through the DynamicSupervisor’s code and it seems that it will stop the dynamic supervisor if one the children doesn’t have any successful retry, i might be wrong though, im still learning elixir and OTP