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diff --git a/docs/tasks.md b/docs/tasks.md index 74d824ac9f..53b30c8ce8 100644 --- a/docs/tasks.md +++ b/docs/tasks.md @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ Background Tasks in AWX ======================= -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 |