Thanks Reuti, this is great. I'll stop qmaster and let the running jobs finish, then do my thing.
-M On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Reuti <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 06.02.2014 um 01:27 schrieb Michael Stauffer: > > > I need to shutdown my FE for maintenance, and am hoping to be able to > preserve queued GE jobs for the convenience of my users. Any suggestions on > how to do that? > > Nothing to worry about - just do it. > > You can stop & restart the qmaster (or even reboot the complete qmaster > machine) - running jobs will continue to run*, and queued ones will stay in > the queue. > > *) unless you stop the execd with its script [but there is "softstop" > implemented in the script to allow jobs to continue even when the execd > needs to be restarted for any reason] > > > > The consensus here is that shutting down GE will kill queued jobs too by > default, > > Shutting down the qmaster won't kill anything, shutting down the execd > will be handled like outlined above. > > In your case you might want to disable the queues (to drain them), and > then restart the qmaster after the maintenance and enable the queues again. > > -- Reuti > > > > although none of us have tried it. Sorry if this is a silly question, am > just getting started as admin on this system. > > > > Thanks > > > > -M > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >
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