AWS Dynamic Inventory ec2.py cache doesn't work?

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Every time I run this plugin, it takes at least a minute to get anything back. Each time it is execute I can see a new cache being built inside ~/.ansible/tmp. Has anyone else had this problem?

$ time ./ec2.py --refresh-cache > /dev/null

real 1m30.124s

user 0m3.784s

sys 0m0.357s

$ time ./ec2.py --list > /dev/null

real 1m17.029s

user 0m3.692s

sys 0m0.334s

$ time ./ec2.py --list > /dev/null

real 1m36.347s

user 0m3.783s

sys 0m0.381s

$ env|grep INI

EC2_INI_PATH=/etc/ansible/ec2.ini

$ egrep ‘cache_path|cache_max_age’ $EC2_INI_PATH

cache_path = ~/.ansible/tmp

cache_max_age = 3000

2

You can probably reduce some time by setting the region that expect your resource to be in and one or note tags in the ex2.ini file

3

What’s the point of the cache then if it doesn’t re-read the cache?