the setup module (and any playbooks) takes an extra 2 min for a fedora 20 based vm. other ansible modules, at least command(date) and yum (upgrade all), take less than a second, on an up to date machine.
tried from os x 10.10 (homebrew) and ubuntu 14.04, both running ansible 1.7.2. heres, the -vvvv
ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: pixel
REMOTE_MODULE setup
EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/Users/pixel/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘akaran’, “/bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968’”]
PUT /var/folders/2v/w9x69ytx017ckmpz4hmjn5qh0000gn/T/tmpPQYuj0 TO /home/pixel/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968/setup
EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/Users/pixel/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘akaran’, u"/bin/sh -c ‘LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/pixel/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968/setup; rm -rf /home/pixel/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1414929572.02-34091227529968/ >/dev/null 2>&1’"]
… facts …