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Yes, Maarten is right. If there are active requests, some jobs related 
to the active requests would failed. And my test also verified this.

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Maarten Litmaath wrote:
> Sergio Maffioletti wrote:
> 
>> did someone already installed the gLite update 23 on the lcg_CE ?
>> I was wandering whether the restart of the job-manager-marshall can be 
>> done
>> while instances of the job-manager are running on the CE or not
> 
> Good question!  If there are active requests, a restart would cause them
> to fail, which may cause jobs to fail.
> 
>> in the latter case we would need to have a downtime as we have to 
>> drain the
>> queues and close the site
> 
> Yes, but see below.
> 
>> for those who have not yet installed the update, are you thinking 
>> installing
>> it right in the middles of the ccrc08 ? or you rather wait till May is 
>> over ?
> 
> Please restart the job-manager-marshall ASAP!  Better cause a few jobs 
> to fail
> than wait for things to drain!  CCRC'08 is a _test_.