# Getting an error... **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 5, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425 "2022-12-05T21:52:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Eggleston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Eggleston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Eggleston)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/1 "2022-12-05T21:52:24Z")
I’m getting: e/meggleston/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1670263852.31-8085-175291763336523/ \> /dev/null 2\>&1 && sleep 0'"'"'' \ ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \ SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/meggleston/.ansible/cp/f012ac57b9 pa2udtlhsql602.prod.harmony.aws2 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'rm -f -r /home/meggleston/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1670263852.91-8148-50804275661258/ \> /dev/null 2\>&1 && sleep 0'"'"'' \ ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \ ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \ SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/meggleston/.ansible/cp/754f3010c5 pa2udtlhsql1023.prod.harmony.aws2 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'rm -f -r /home/meggleston/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1670263852.31-8085-175291763336523/ \> /dev/null 2\>&1 && sleep 0'"'"'' \ SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/meggleston/.ansible/cp/09c53a2792 pa2udtlhsql604.prod.harmony.aws2 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'rm -f -r /home/meggleston/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1670263853.52-8164-79599240649234/ \> /dev/null 2\>&1 && sleep 0'"'"'' \ ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \ SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/meggleston/.ansible/cp/3301cea578 pa2udtlhsql1020.prod.harmony.aws2 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'rm -f -r /home/meggleston/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1670263852.15-8057-21113899783559/ \> /dev/null 2\>&1 && sleep 0'"'"'' \ ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \ SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/meggleston/.ansible/cp/f012ac57b9 pa2udtlhsql602.prod.harmony.aws2 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'rm -f -r /home/meggleston/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1670263852.91-8148-50804275661258/ \> /dev/null 2\>&1 && sleep 0'"'"'' \ ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \ SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/meggleston/.ansible/cp/a501b68168 pa2udtlhsql1022.prod.harmony.aws2 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'rm -f -r /home/meggleston/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1670263852.07-8072-136961495388876/ \> /dev/null 2\>&1 && sleep 0'"'"'' ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory the full traceback was: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 123, in \    exit\_code = cli.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/cli/playbook.py", line 128, in run    results = pbex.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/playbook\_executor.py", line 169, in run    result = self.\_tqm.run(play=play) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/task\_queue\_manager.py", line 282, in run    play\_return = strategy.run(iterator, play\_context) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py", line 311, in run    self.\_queue\_task(host, task, task\_vars, play\_context) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/strategy/\_\_init\_\_.py", line 390, in \_queue\_task    worker\_prc.start() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/process/worker.py", line 100, in start    return super(WorkerProcess, self).start() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 130, in start    self.\_popen = Popen(self) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/forking.py", line 121, in \_\_init\_\_    self.pid = os.fork() When I run a stupid playbook with the command: anssible-playbook -vvv 1.yml for the playbook: ---
**Author:** ![utoddl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/utoddl/32/249_2.png) [@utoddl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/utoddl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/2 "2022-12-05T21:56:53Z")
How many hosts are in your inventory? ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Eggleston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Eggleston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Eggleston)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/3 "2022-12-05T23:02:34Z")
5709 ---
**Author:** ![utoddl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/utoddl/32/249_2.png) [@utoddl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/utoddl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/4 "2022-12-05T23:21:22Z")
Have you changed any defaults for “strategy” or “forks”? Also I see your ssh is config’d for “-o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s”. I’m not sure how many hosts you’re caching connections for during any give 60 second window, or how much memory that would eat, but it may be a significant factor. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Eggleston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Eggleston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Eggleston)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/5 "2022-12-06T14:32:16Z")
I’ve not changed “strategy”, but I did change “forks” from 5 to 50. I have copied /etc/ansible.cfg to ~/.ansible.cfg and changed forks = 50, inventory = $HOME/src/ansible/inventory and log\_path = /tmp/${USER}\_ansible.log. ---
**Author:** ![utoddl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/utoddl/32/249_2.png) [@utoddl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/utoddl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/6 "2022-12-06T17:55:21Z")
I’m not particularly fluent in instrumenting resource consumption, but I’m going out on a limb and guessing that 50 or so ssh connections is a lot more light-weight than 50 forks of ansible-playbook. So ignoring ssh as a possible resource limit for the moment, try changing forks back to 5 and running your playbook. At the same time, in another window, monitor (in a way to be determined by you) resource consumption. I’d expect it to work 5 forks, just not as fast as with more forks. If it _does_ work, then try it again with, say, 10 forks and compare resources during that run to the 5 fork run. I expect this to also work, barely, and that you’ll be almost out of … something. But you’ll also have a much better picture of where the walls are in this black box. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Eggleston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Eggleston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Eggleston)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/7 "2022-12-09T15:16:37Z")
I changed forks = back to 5 (commented out my change) and still I get the out of memory error. I removed all hosts that are in AWS so I’m not using the proxy in ssh(1). My inventory is down to 4400 hosts. I wonder what’s eating the memory…? Any ideas….? 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Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory the full traceback was: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 123, in \     exit\_code = cli.run()   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/cli/playbook.py", line 128, in run     results = pbex.run()   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/playbook\_executor.py", line 169, in run     result = self.\_tqm.run(play=play)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/task\_queue\_manager.py", line 282, in run     play\_return = strategy.run(iterator, play\_context)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py", line 311, in run     self.\_queue\_task(host, task, task\_vars, play\_context)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/strategy/\_\_init\_\_.py", line 390, in \_queue\_task     worker\_prc.start()   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/process/worker.py", line 100, in start     return super(WorkerProcess, self).start()   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 130, in start     self.\_popen = Popen(self)   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/forking.py", line 121, in \_\_init\_\_     self.pid = os.fork() OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Eggleston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Eggleston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Eggleston)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/8 "2022-12-09T21:29:29Z")
Does Ansible have a memory leak (that only shows up with a high number of hosts)? Mike [meggleston@pc1uepsiadm01 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i ansible ansible-2.9.27-1.el7.noarch ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Eggleston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Eggleston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Eggleston)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/9 "2022-12-09T21:44:35Z")
I’ve set “forks = 1” and rerun my test which does an ansible-playbook and an uptime. Could it be the register rather than a memory leak? Here free(1) keeps going down: > [meggleston@pc1uepsiadm01 ~]$ while true > \> do > \> date > \> free -m > \> sleep 60 > \> done > Fri Dec 9 16:30:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1139 6190 18 490 6408 > Swap: 4095 2897 1198 > Fri Dec 9 16:31:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1149 6127 19 544 6398 > Swap: 4095 2896 1199 > Fri Dec 9 16:32:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1163 6112 19 544 6383 > Swap: 4095 2896 1199 > Fri Dec 9 16:33:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1173 6100 19 546 6373 > Swap: 4095 2896 1199 > Fri Dec 9 16:34:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1184 6081 19 554 6362 > Swap: 4095 2895 1200 > Fri Dec 9 16:35:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1215 6042 20 562 6329 > Swap: 4095 2885 1210 > Fri Dec 9 16:36:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1225 6032 20 563 6319 > Swap: 4095 2884 1211 > Fri Dec 9 16:37:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1229 6028 20 563 6315 > Swap: 4095 2880 1215 > Fri Dec 9 16:38:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1257 5999 20 563 6287 > Swap: 4095 2861 1234 > Fri Dec 9 16:39:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1286 5971 21 563 6259 > Swap: 4095 2860 1235 > Fri Dec 9 16:40:31 EST 2022 >               total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 7821 1295 5961 21 563 6249 > Swap: 4095 2860 1235 The playbook is really stupid: [meggleston@pc1uepsiadm01 playbooks]$ cat y.yml # $Id$ # $Log$ # set cyberark to a known point # :!ansible-playbook --syntax-check % # :!ansible-playbook --check --limit pc1uepsiadm01.res.prod.global % # :!ansible-playbook --limit pc1uepsiadm01.res.prod.global % # :!ansible-playbook % ---
**Author:** ![Jorge\_Rua1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@Jorge\_Rua1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jorge_Rua1)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/10 "2022-12-09T22:02:09Z")
I’d try two things if I were on your shoes: - Increase memory on the ansible controller - Update python to a more up-to-date version Regards, ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Eggleston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Eggleston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Eggleston)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/11 "2022-12-09T22:03:00Z")
I don’t think it’s the “register”. I removed the “register” (and changed the value of “forks =“ by commenting it out so things don’t take so long) and the free memory still goes down: while true; do date; free -m; sleep 60; done Fri Dec 9 16:48:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 1381 5864 21 575 6163 Swap: 4095 2858 1237 Fri Dec 9 16:49:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 1380 5864 21 575 6164 Swap: 4095 2858 1237 Fri Dec 9 16:50:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 658 6586 21 576 6886 Swap: 4095 2858 1237 Fri Dec 9 16:51:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 874 6369 21 577 6670 Swap: 4095 2857 1238 Fri Dec 9 16:52:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 1246 5997 21 576 6298 Swap: 4095 2857 1238 Fri Dec 9 16:53:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 1247 5996 21 577 6297 Swap: 4095 2856 1239 Fri Dec 9 16:54:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 1304 5939 21 577 6240 Swap: 4095 2856 1239 Fri Dec 9 16:55:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 1353 5889 21 577 6190 Swap: 4095 2855 1240 Fri Dec 9 16:56:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 1414 5828 21 577 6129 Swap: 4095 2855 1240 Fri Dec 9 16:57:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 1499 5743 21 578 6044 Swap: 4095 2855 1240 Fri Dec 9 16:58:31 EST 2022               total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7821 2005 5237 21 578 5538 Swap: 4095 2855 1240 My playbook is now: [meggleston@pc1uepsiadm01 playbooks]$ cat y2.yml # $Id$ # $Log$ # set cyberark to a known point # :!ansible-playbook --syntax-check % # :!ansible-playbook --check --limit pc1uepsiadm01.res.prod.global % # :!ansible-playbook --limit pc1uepsiadm01.res.prod.global % # :!ansible-playbook % ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Eggleston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Eggleston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Eggleston)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/12 "2022-12-09T22:04:05Z")
I would if I could. The Ansible controller should easily get by with 6G free and I can only update to what’s in the company’s update pipeline. Mike ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Eggleston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Eggleston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Eggleston)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/13 "2022-12-10T17:08:55Z")
My current hypothesis is that “gather\_facts: true” is causing the issue with 4400 (4403) hosts. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-an-error/37425/14 "2022-12-12T16:10:03Z")
AFAIK, Ansible does not have memory leaks, it does have a 'ballooning' issue with inventory and/or facts, this can be mitigated in some ways:   - targeting smaller inventories    - using fact caching    - not gathering facts/not registering when not needed    - turning fact injection off ([https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference\_appendices/config.html#inject-facts-as-vars](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#inject-facts-as-vars)).