the setup module (and any playbooks) takes an extra 2 min for a fedora 20 based vm. other ansible modules, at least command(date) and yum (upgrade all), take less than a second, on an up to date machine.
tried from os x 10.10 (homebrew) and ubuntu 14.04, both running ansible 1.7.2. heres, the -vvvv <akaran> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: pixel <akaran> REMOTE_MODULE setup <akaran> EXEC ['ssh', '-C', '-tt', '-vvv', '-o', 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', 'ControlPath=/Users/pixel/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r', '-o', 'KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no', '-o', 'PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey', '-o', 'PasswordAuthentication=no', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=10', 'akaran', "/bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968'"] <akaran> PUT /var/folders/2v/w9x69ytx017ckmpz4hmjn5qh0000gn/T/tmpPQYuj0 TO /home/pixel/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968/setup <akaran> EXEC ['ssh', '-C', '-tt', '-vvv', '-o', 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', 'ControlPath=/Users/pixel/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r', '-o', 'KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no', '-o', 'PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey', '-o', 'PasswordAuthentication=no', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=10', 'akaran', u"/bin/sh -c 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/pixel/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968/setup; rm -rf /home/pixel/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968/ >/dev/null 2>&1'"] ... facts ... -- 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/7bf63dde-3d2a-4562-90b1-5a950800326d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.