community.general.cgroup_memory_recap – Profiles maximum memory usage of tasks and full execution using cgroups

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.cgroup_memory_recap.

Synopsis

  • This is an ansible callback plugin that profiles maximum memory usage of ansible and individual tasks, and displays a recap at the end using cgroups

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.

  • whitelist in configuration
  • cgroups

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
cur_mem_file
string / required
ini entries:

[callback_cgroupmemrecap]
cur_mem_file = None

env:CGROUP_CUR_MEM_FILE
Path to memory.usage_in_bytes file. Example /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.usage_in_bytes
max_mem_file
string / required
ini entries:

[callback_cgroupmemrecap]
max_mem_file = None

env:CGROUP_MAX_MEM_FILE
Path to cgroups memory.max_usage_in_bytes file. Example /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.max_usage_in_bytes

Notes

Note

  • Requires ansible to be run from within a cgroup, such as with cgexec -g memory:ansible_profile ansible-playbook ...
  • This cgroup should only be used by ansible to get accurate results
  • To create the cgroup, first use a command such as sudo cgcreate -a ec2-user:ec2-user -t ec2-user:ec2-user -g memory:ansible_profile

Authors

  • Unknown (!UNKNOWN)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/cgroup_memory_recap_callback.html