DEFUNCT procs: ansible not closing gracefully for unreachable hosts

Hi,

I’ve been a happy ansible automation user for 3 months with 1032 hosts in our list.

Security asked me to add 200+ hosts to the list - now I am seeing my daily ansible jobs result in hung / defunct processes

NB: I am using -m raw since there are RHEL4 hosts not able to do the python juju

Q: Why doesn’t ansible just kill the hanging sessions like it WAS DESIGNED TO!?

thanks!