[resuming the previous mail, sent too early by mistake :-] On 28/03/2016 00:29, Loic Dachary wrote: > Hi Thierry, > > When teuthology runs ansible on a newly created host as: > > /home/ubuntu/teuthology/virtualenv/bin/python /home/ubuntu/teuthology/virtualenv/bin/ansible-playbook -v --extra-vars {"ansible_ssh_user": "ubuntu"} -i /etc/ansible/hosts --limit target010011010028.teuthology /home/ubuntu/src/ceph-cm-ansible_master/cephlab.yml > > it stalls because there are too many hosts in the inventory (65537) and > > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts/host_vars/target010011203193.teuthology", 0x7fc8f1a4f0, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts/host_vars/target010011203193.teuthology.yml", 0x7fc8f1a4f0, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts/host_vars/target010011203193.teuthology.yaml", 0x7fc8f1a4f0, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts/host_vars/target010011203193.teuthology.json", 0x7fc8f1a4f0, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, 0) = 0 > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, 0) = 0 > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts/host_vars/target010011203194.teuthology", 0x7fc8f1a4f0, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts/host_vars/target010011203194.teuthology.yml", 0x7fc8f1a4f0, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts/host_vars/target010011203194.teuthology.yaml", 0x7fc8f1a4f0, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ansible/hosts/host_vars/target010011203194.teuthology.json", 0x7fc8f1a4f0, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > > takes forever. This is running on an ARMv8 virtual machine: > (virtualenv)ubuntu@teuthology:~/teuthology$ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : AArch64 Processor rev 1 (aarch64) processor : 0 Features : fp asimd evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x50 CPU architecture: AArch64 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0x000 CPU revision : 1 Hardware : linux,dummy-virt which also explains why it's not very fast. Do you know of a way to ask ansible to only consider one host instead of what appears to be a systematic exploration of all possible hosts in the inventory, only to finally select the one from the --limit argument ? Cheers -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html