Slow performance issue

[leap72]

Issue Type:

Bug Report

Ansible Version:

ansible 1.7.2

Environment:

Ubuntu 14.04

Summary:
I am using the many roles inside the playbook. There are some tasks not all which take longer as inthe example below eg. 3 minutes just to make sure Nginx service is running or 6 minutes to create some folders. I don't understand why this take really long just to verify a service.

Steps To Reproduce:

Here's my tasks:

First task

- name: Ensure service is running
  service: name=nginx state=started enabled=yes

Second task

- name: Create project folder(s)
  file: dest=/home/{{ project_id }}/{{ item }}
        state=directory
        owner={{ project_user }}
        group=www-data
        mode=0750
  with_items:
    - backup
    - conf
    - log
    - cgi-bin
    - cgi-bin/php5-default
    - ci-phing
    - ci-phing/config

Expected Results:
several seconds for no-change runs. ~40 seconds for creating all folders.

Actual Results:

First task

09:43:44 TASK: [nginx | Add configuration] ********************************************* 
09:43:44 ok: [monitoring]
09:43:44 TASK: [nginx | Ensure service is running] ************************************* 
09:43:44 ok: [monitoring]
09:46:11 TASK: [nginx | Create SSL folder] ********************************************* 
09:46:11 ok: [monitoring]

Second task

09:53:51 TASK: [Create project folder(s)] ********************************************** 
09:53:51 ok: [app] => (item=backup)
09:53:51 ok: [app] => (item=conf)
09:53:51 ok: [app] => (item=log)
09:53:51 ok: [app] => (item=cgi-bin)
09:53:51 ok: [app] => (item=cgi-bin/php5-default)
09:53:51 ok: [app] => (item=ci-phing)
09:53:51 ok: [app] => (item=ci-phing/config)
09:59:14 TASK: [Create php-fcgi-wrapper] *********************************************** 
09:59:14 ok: [app]

[jimi-c]

Hi @leap72, have you tried this against a new version of Ansible or the devel branch? There was some work around that time to help prevent some variables from being templated inappropriately (ie. custom facts containing {{lookup()}} syntax), and that work has been tweaked since then to provide better performance.

If we don't hear from you in a few days, we'll assume this issue has been resolved and close it.

Thanks!

[jimi-c]

Noted that there there has been no follow-up in quite a while, so going to go ahead and close this, as it has been reported against a much older version of Ansible.

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