# remote loop

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote-loop/16553>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 19, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote-loop/16553 "2014-10-19T15:08:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Adham\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Adham\_H](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adham_H)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote-loop/16553/1 "2014-10-19T15:08:42Z")

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Hey,

We provision hundreds of unix users per host using the standard with\_items and user module. Correct me if i am wrong, When I use -vvvv for each user in the list a connection is created and the module is transferred with the argument and that takes sometime. Is there a way to improve it without developing a new module ? Sending the list as an argument and looping remotely or any other idea that will improve the speed ?

Regards

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote-loop/16553/2 "2014-10-20T21:00:13Z")

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There is no user surfaceable way presentently to send the list together in one object.

There is some specific code that does this for yum/apt.

It may be easier for a module to request this behavior in the future, but it’s not presently.