diff --git a/docsite/latest/rst/playbooks_acceleration.rst b/docsite/latest/rst/playbooks_acceleration.rst index 02391fc7c0f..16ccbd6a902 100644 --- a/docsite/latest/rst/playbooks_acceleration.rst +++ b/docsite/latest/rst/playbooks_acceleration.rst @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Accelerated Mode .. versionadded:: 1.3 While SSH using the ControlPersist feature is quite fast and scalable, there is a certain amount of overhead involved in -creating connections. This can become something of a bottleneck when the number of hosts grows into the hundreds or -thousands. To help overcome this, Ansible offers an accelerated connection option. Accelerated mode can be anywhere from +creating connections. This can become something of a bottleneck when the number of hosts grows into the hundreds or +thousands. To help overcome this, Ansible offers an accelerated connection option. Accelerated mode can be anywhere from 2-6x faster than SSH with ControlPersist enabled, and 10x faster than paramiko. Accelerated mode works by launching a temporary daemon over SSH. Once the daemon is running, Ansible will connect directly @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Accelerated mode offers several improvments over the original fireball mode: * No bootstrapping is required, only a single line needs to be added to each play you wish to run in accelerated mode. * Support for sudo commands (see below for more details and caveats). * Fewer requirements! ZeroMQ is no longer required, nor are there any special packages beyond python-keyczar. +* On FreeBSD you will need security/py-keyczar and devel/py-asn1. In order to use accelerated mode, simply add `accelerate: true` to your play:: @@ -117,4 +118,3 @@ any platform. You will also need gcc and zeromq-devel installed from your packa Fedora and EPEL also have Ansible RPM subpackages available for fireball-dependencies. Also see the module documentation section. -