# Restart queue workers

**URL:** <https://discuss.dvc.org/t/restart-queue-workers/2216>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [September 18, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/restart-queue-workers/2216 "2024-09-18T14:09:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![f-fuchs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5ac83/32.png) [@f-fuchs](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/f-fuchs)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/restart-queue-workers/2216/1 "2024-09-18T14:09:39Z")

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Hey,

is it possible to restart queue workers? Sometimes a worker dies or gets killed by dvc queue kill (even if this should not happen) and I would like to restart the worker. Is this possible?

Thanks  
Fabian

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**Author:** ![f-fuchs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5ac83/32.png) [@f-fuchs](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/f-fuchs)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/restart-queue-workers/2216/2 "2024-10-09T08:45:04Z")

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another use case would be initially queueing some experiments starting the queue with `n` workers and adding new experiments to the queue when there are less than `n` active and remaining experiments. at least in my experiments even though there should be workers idling these workers wont be reused and only the active ones will be used.

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**Author:** ![f-fuchs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5ac83/32.png) [@f-fuchs](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/f-fuchs)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/restart-queue-workers/2216/3 "2024-10-16T11:14:05Z")

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okay seems one can just rerun `dvc queue start -j n` with the desired numbers of workers.