Yep, it's primarily useful for *longer* playbooks, rather than a parallelism thing (completely unrelated to the number of hosts), and shows greater dividends over more latent connections.
All being said the alternate SSH transport being developed now (-c ssh_alt, to become the new -c ssh once completed with testing) may obviate the need for accelerate mode in many cases. On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Brian Coca <[email protected]> wrote: > not your setup costs, the (time) cost of setting up the socket server on > the 'targets' and networking them, for you its just a connection: <plugin>. > > it IS faster when dealing with average to large playbooks, but it stands > to reason that it will be slower for a single task, as it uses ssh to > connect initially to setup the accelerated socket server and then run the > task, vs ssh and running the task. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. http://www.ansibleworks.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
