From 8db725100bdffd539853e03085712703ea2f3923 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryan Parry Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:49:34 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify description of fork --- docsite/rst/intro_configuration.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docsite/rst/intro_configuration.rst b/docsite/rst/intro_configuration.rst index 03a3f24a66f..9370ac9b768 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/intro_configuration.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/intro_configuration.rst @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ forks ===== This is the default number of parallel processes to spawn when communicating with remote hosts. Since Ansible 1.3, -the fork number is automatically limited to the number of possible hosts, so this is really a limit of how much +the fork number is automatically limited to the number of possible hosts at runtime, so this is really a limit of how much network and CPU load you think you can handle. Many users may set this to 50, some set it to 500 or more. If you have a large number of hosts, higher values will make actions across all of those hosts complete faster. The default is very very conservative::