# Ansible hangs

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hangs/21182>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 17, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hangs/21182 "2016-04-17T12:48:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Vivek\_Aggarwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Vivek\_Aggarwal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vivek_Aggarwal)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hangs/21182/1 "2016-04-17T12:48:27Z")

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While running my ansible playbook on 350 hosts, the ansible process hangs in between & shows a couple of **defunct processes.** Is there any way out i can resolve this,Please suggest

i m using below version :-

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hangs/21182/2 "2016-04-23T18:44:49Z")

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If this is on the same machine, it seams that you have mixed different versions of Ansible. Ansible 1.9.4 from a repository and Ansible 2.0.1.0 from another source like pip?

That would give you a lot of problem.