One of the previous aspects of Ansible was that if you were using a high fork count (such as 100-400) there was a performance cost to allocating and combining the forks. This cost was not trivial and is actually where Ansible could spend most of it's CPU time.
I just committed some code that pre-allocates the series of forks ansible uses, so that in a playbook they are not allocated at every task step. The result of this is playbooks should run blindingly faster now. I'd appreciate testing and bug reports in case we've broken something subtle. In particular: * Control-C handling is different, and may not yet be perfect - want to make sure we don't leave zombies around and do kill any outstanding ops * I haven't super-well-tested things with the prompts for host keys on new hosts when host key checking is enabled. Should work like before. This should be included in 1.5 and is currently available on the devel branch. Let me know how it works for you! Thanks! --Michael -- 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.
