Merge pull request #17994 from bparry02/patch-1

Clarify description of fork
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scottb 8 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ forks
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This is the default number of parallel processes to spawn when communicating with remote hosts. Since Ansible 1.3, 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 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 have a large number of hosts, higher values will make actions across all of those hosts complete faster. The default
is very very conservative:: is very very conservative::

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