# errors regarding ansible task execution on multiple hosts **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Tags:** ubuntu\ **Created:** [September 23, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/errors-regarding-ansible-task-execution-on-multiple-hosts/19340 "2015-09-23T14:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anandkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@anandkumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anandkumar)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/errors-regarding-ansible-task-execution-on-multiple-hosts/19340/1 "2015-09-23T14:06:13Z")
hello, i am having currently 150 hosts.In ansible i have known that exeution of task in multiple hosts can be set by the forks parameter.Initially i have set the forks =70 and i run the following command: ansible -m shell -a “date” all it works fine. But while i put forks=100 it throws the following errors. Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 85, in \_executor\_hook result\_queue.put(return\_data) File “”, line 2, in put File “/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/managers.py”, line 758, in \_callmethod conn.send((self.\_id, methodname, args, kwds)) IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe Process Process-16: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py”, line 258, in \_bootstrap self.run() File “/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py”, line 114, in run self.\_target(\*self.\_args, \*\*self.\_kwargs) File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 81, in \_executor\_hook while not job\_queue.empty(): File “”, line 2, in empty File “/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/managers.py”, line 758, in \_callmethod conn.send((self.\_id, methodname, args, kwds)) IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe vltr619 | success | rc=0 \>\> Wed Sep 23 19:21:22 IST 2015 Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 85, in \_executor\_hook result\_queue.put(return\_data) File “”, line 2, in put File “/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/managers.py”, line 758, in \_callmethod conn.send((self.\_id, methodname, args, kwds)) IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe Process Process-83: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py”, line 258, in \_bootstrap self.run() File “/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py”, line 114, in run self.\_target(\*self.\_args, \*\*self.\_kwargs) File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 81, in \_executor\_hook while not job\_queue.empty(): File “”, line 2, in empty File “/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/managers.py”, line 758, in \_callmethod conn.send((self.\_id, methodname, args, kwds)) IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe I am not sure why these errors occur.Could you please give an idea regarding this error? the following are my virtualmachine configuration details ansible version is 1.9.2 python version is 2.7.6 1 GB ram 1 core processor server provider is digital ocean. ubuntu 14.04 OS