Re: [HTCondor-devel] more on IP addresses

[Brian Bockelman <bbockelm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:55 PM, Igor Sfiligoi <sfiligoi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Erik.
> 
> I think we are mixing two things here;
> migrating jobs between nodes and killing jobs due to upgrades.
> 
> Personally, I would really like the second solved first!
> As you said "It's nuts that you have to restart so many jobs when you upgrade HTCondor"!
> HTCondor startd should be able to restart (and possibly change version in between) without killing any jobs!!!

What's wrong with using HTCondor's peaceful restart capabilities?  You roll out the new version, HTCondor drains the worker node and the master re-exec's itself.

If you're not using that feature locally, you're missing out!

Brian

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