# ERROR: filedescriptor out of range in select()

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-filedescriptor-out-of-range-in-select/20799>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 8, 2016, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-filedescriptor-out-of-range-in-select/20799 "2016-03-08T09:39:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Sha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sha)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-filedescriptor-out-of-range-in-select/20799/1 "2016-03-08T09:39:48Z")

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Hello,

I am getting the following error when running ansible to control 500 machines.

/home/sharath.g/codet]$ ansible --version  
ansible 2.1.0 (devel 8f1303c81a) last updated 2016/03/04 12:01:52 (GMT +550)  
lib/ansible/modules/core: (detached HEAD 0bbb7ba38d) last updated 2016/03/04 12:02:00 (GMT +550)  
lib/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 39e4040685) last updated 2016/03/04 12:02:09 (GMT +550)  
config file =  
configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

/home/sharath.g/code]$ python --version  
Python 2.7.3

linux version

/home/sharath.g/code]$ uname -a  
Linux dev 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u2 x86\_64 GNU/Linux

Please help!!