Thanks for the reply Sebastian.
It(backup.yml) is a inbuilt module provided in the ansible bundle. It is
also running fetch.py during the download
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/action/fetch.py",
line 95, in run
slurpres = self._execute_module(module_name='slurp',
module_args=dict(src=source), task_vars=task_vars)
On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 8:15:06 PM UTC-4, Sebastian Meyer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 29.03.19 00:55, Sindhuja Koneru wrote:
> > '"'"'/usr/bin/python
> > /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1553783711.94-90505061625143/slurp.py &&
> > sleep 0'"'"''
>
> Any reason you are using slurp and not fetch?
>
> slurp reads the whole file into memory, afterwards it does base64
> encoding still in memory, and then transfers the content.
>
> This is basically what happens in slurp:
>
> ---
> $ python
> Python 2.7.14 (default, Oct 12 2017, 15:50:02) [GCC] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import base64
> >>> import os
> >>> with open('/isos/rhel-server-5.11-x86_64-dvd.iso', 'rb') as source:
> ... source_content = source.read()
> ...
> >>> data = base64.b64encode(source_content)
> >>>
> ---
>
> My testfile is a 4.2GB and ram usage for that single python process goes
> up to 12.5GB before settling at 9.7GB.
>
> Sooooo you might not have enough RAM on the system you're slurping the
> file from.
>
> Sebastian
>
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