# One server is slow to respond to ansible (but does) gather\_facts

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/one-server-is-slow-to-respond-to-ansible-but-does-gather-facts/28071>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/one-server-is-slow-to-respond-to-ansible-but-does-gather-facts/28071 "2018-07-17T18:11:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/one-server-is-slow-to-respond-to-ansible-but-does-gather-facts/28071/1 "2018-07-17T18:11:20Z")

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In my experience this is always because of IO (some mount point gone stale)  
Gather facts is running a lot of different commands like df, lvm, mount, swap, nfs and other network filesystems and many more.

You could login to the server a try different commands that list information about IO and see if some of them takes time.