To download, ansible is using fetch module.
fetch:
dest: ' '
fail_on_missing: yes
flat: yes
src: ' '
On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 8:26:15 PM UTC-4, Sindhuja Koneru wrote:
>
> 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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>>
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>
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