Re: [HTCondor-users] restarting / reloading / re-config

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/19/21 11:05 AM, Jeff Templon wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Weâre bringing HTCondor under our config mgt system. We have the 
> following question about how to deal with a changed config. In the 
> past, on non-HTCondor machines we usually restart the daemon. We have 
> seen that restarting daemons on HTCondor generally results in a 
> restart of jobs (unfortunate, this is [ use your best Yoda accent here 
> ]). condor_reconfig works, but does a reload work as well?


Under the hood, a reconfig on the local machine is the same as sending a 
SIGHUP to the master. Note there are a handful of config changes that 
require a restart. Probably the most common is changing the number of 
resources or slots on a worker node.


-greg