A performance change should improve the measured workload without sacrificing correctness or wasting capacity. Which measurements and bottlenecks should be considered first?

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Profile task duration, fact gathering and remote connection overhead. Reuse connections and gather only facts that the playbook needs. Increase forks only within the capacity of the control node and targets, and use serial rollout controls for services that cannot all restart together.

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