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Background Tasks in AWX
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-In this document, we will go into a bit of detail about how and when AWX runs Python code _in the background_ (_i.e._, _outside_ of the context of an HTTP request), such as:
+In this document, we will go into a bit of detail about how and when AWX runs Python code _in the background_ (_i.e._, **outside** of the context of an HTTP request), such as:
* Any time a Job is launched in AWX (a Job Template, an Ad Hoc Command, a Project
Update, an Inventory Update, a System Job), a background process retrieves
metadata _about_ that job from the database and forks some process (_e.g._,
`ansible-playbook`, `awx-manage inventory_import`)
-* Certain expensive or time-consuming tasks run in the background
+* Certain expensive or time-consuming tasks running in the background
asynchronously (_e.g._, when deleting an inventory).
* AWX runs a variety of periodic background tasks on a schedule. Some examples
are:
- AWX's "Task Manager/Scheduler" wakes up periodically and looks for
- `pending` jobs that have been launched and are ready to start running.
+ `pending` jobs that have been launched and are ready to start running
- AWX periodically runs code that looks for scheduled jobs and launches
- them.
+ them
- AWX runs a variety of periodic tasks that clean up temporary files, and
performs various administrative checks
- Every node in an AWX cluster runs a periodic task that serves as