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community.general.cgroup_memory_recap – Profiles maximum memory usage of tasks and full execution using cgroups

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.cgroup_memory_recap.

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 Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
cur_mem_file
string / required
ini entries:

[callback_cgroupmemrecap]
cur_mem_file = None

env:CGROUP_CUR_MEM_FILE
Path to memory.usage_in_bytes file. Example /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.usage_in_bytes
max_mem_file
string / required
ini entries:

[callback_cgroupmemrecap]
max_mem_file = None

env:CGROUP_MAX_MEM_FILE
Path to cgroups memory.max_usage_in_bytes file. Example /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.max_usage_in_bytes

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

Authors

  • Unknown (!UNKNOWN)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/cgroup_memory_recap_callback.html