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