# Does enqueuing a job require acquiring the distributed lock?

**URL:** <https://discuss.hangfire.io/t/does-enqueuing-a-job-require-acquiring-the-distributed-lock/3769>\
**Category:** question\
**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.hangfire.io/t/does-enqueuing-a-job-require-acquiring-the-distributed-lock/3769 "2017-09-06T21:53:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![AustinSalgat](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/discuss.hangfire.io/austinsalgat/32/1080_2.png) [@AustinSalgat](https://discuss.hangfire.io/u/AustinSalgat)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.hangfire.io/t/does-enqueuing-a-job-require-acquiring-the-distributed-lock/3769/1 "2017-09-06T21:53:08Z")

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I know that processing a job does, but wanted to confirm if enqueuing does also. I ask because there are occasions where parallel services result in one having the lock while the other is locked out for a short while, and I don’t want that to pause processing for enqueuing new jobs.