community.general.cgroup_memory_recap callback – Profiles maximum memory usage of tasks and full execution using cgroups
Note
This callback plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.1).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible
package.
It is not included in ansible-core
.
To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list
.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
You need further requirements to be able to use this callback plugin,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.cgroup_memory_recap
.
Callback plugin
This plugin is an aggregate callback. It adds additional console output next to the configured stdout callback. See Callback plugins for more information on callback plugins.
Synopsis
This is an ansible callback plugin that profiles maximum memory usage of ansible and individual tasks, and displays a recap at the end using cgroups.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.
whitelist in configuration
cgroups
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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Path to Configuration:
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Path to cgroups Configuration:
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Notes
Note
Requires ansible to be run from within a cgroup, such as with
cgexec -g memory:ansible_profile ansible-playbook ...
.This cgroup should only be used by ansible to get accurate results.
To create the cgroup, first use a command such as
sudo cgcreate -a ec2-user:ec2-user -t ec2-user:ec2-user -g memory:ansible_profile
.