Re: [HTCondor-users] Jobs vacating on schedd restart

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Jan 18, 2017, at 7:19 AM, Michael Pelletier <Michael.V.Pelletier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the clarification of that point, Todd. I had always been under the impression that -fast also killed off the running jobs; that "fast" meant something like "ungracefully" or "I don't care what your retirement time is."

That is true if youâre doing the condor_off/condor_restart on the execute machine. If youâre justing doing this on a submit machine, the fast thing is to not bother talking to the execute machines about gracefully terminating all of the running jobs. 

 - Jaime