Why Are My Jobs Failing With 'Cannot Allocate Memory' using Ansible?
Issue
When running playbooks that utilize several "include" tasks, the control server spikes in memory and the job fails with:
OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
Environment
- Ansible Core <= 2.4.2
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