Hi Maarten... Quoting "Maarten Litmaath" <[log in to unmask]>: >>> 4028 jobs; 0 idle, 4 running, 4024 held > > I am surprised that the cleanup of those held jobs made a difference; > many CERN WMS nodes have had many more held jobs without problems. What can I say?! Indeed the WMS is working fine since then :-/ > >> Maarten sent me this script wich must be in cron: > > Actually I did not send _that_ exact code. > First, I suggested a different cron job in this bug: > > https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?70401 > > That should avoid the steady increase of held jobs. I've substituted the previous cron by the one you provided now. Thanks again Cheers Goncalo