win_dotnet_ngen - Runs ngen to recompile DLLs after .NET updates

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

• After .NET framework is installed/updated, Windows will probably want to recompile things to optimise for the host.
• This happens via scheduled task, usually at some inopportune time.
• This module allows you to run this task on your own schedule, so you incur the CPU hit at some more convenient and controlled time.
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/08/06/wondering-why-mscorsvw-exe-has-high-cpu-usage-you-can-speed-it-up.aspx

Notes

Note

• There are in fact two scheduled tasks for ngen but they have no triggers so aren’t a problem.
• There’s no way to test if they’ve been completed.
• The stdout is quite likely to be several megabytes.

Examples

- name: run ngen tasks
  win_dotnet_ngen:

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
dotnet_ngen64_eqi_exit_code int	64-bit ngen executable exists	The exit code after running the 64-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command.
dotnet_ngen64_eqi_output str	64-bit ngen executable exists	The stdout after running the 64-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command. Sample: sample output
dotnet_ngen64_update_exit_code int	64-bit ngen executable exists	The exit code after running the 64-bit ngen.exe update /force command.
dotnet_ngen64_update_output str	64-bit ngen executable exists	The stdout after running the 64-bit ngen.exe update /force command. Sample: sample output
dotnet_ngen_eqi_exit_code int	32-bit ngen executable exists	The exit code after running the 32-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command.
dotnet_ngen_eqi_output str	32-bit ngen executable exists	The stdout after running the 32-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command. Sample: sample output
dotnet_ngen_update_exit_code int	32-bit ngen executable exists	The exit code after running the 32-bit ngen.exe update /force command.
dotnet_ngen_update_output str	32-bit ngen executable exists	The stdout after running the 32-bit ngen.exe update /force command. Sample: sample output

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

• Peter Mounce (@petemounce)

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