[BUG] Salt master target all minions even we target certain minion

[tomm144]

Description
When we run salt 'minion_id' test.ping on salt master it spawns all workers and targets all minion. This causes high load.
Tested on 3006.7 and 3006.7

Setup
tested on test.ping command

Please be as specific as possible and give set-up details.

• on-prem machine
• VM (Virtualbox, KVM, etc. please specify)
• VM running on a cloud service, please be explicit and add details
• container (Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, etc. please specify)
• or a combination, please be explicit
• jails if it is FreeBSD
• classic packaging
• onedir packaging
• used bootstrap to install

Steps to Reproduce the behavior
salt 'certain_minion_id' test.ping

Expected behavior
not target all minions only chosen one, less load.

Versions Report

salt --versions-report

(Provided by running salt --versions-report. Please also mention any differences in master/minion versions.)

:~# salt --versions-report
Salt Version:
          Salt: 3006.8
 
Python Version:
        Python: 3.10.14 (main, Apr  3 2024, 21:30:09) [GCC 11.2.0]
 
Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 1.14.6
      cherrypy: unknown
      dateutil: 2.8.1
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: Not Installed
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 3.1.3
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.0.2
      M2Crypto: 0.39.0
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.0.2
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 22.0
     pycparser: 2.21
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.19.1
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: 0.4.8
        PyYAML: 6.0.1
         PyZMQ: 23.2.0
        relenv: 0.16.0
         smmap: Not Installed
       timelib: 0.2.4
       Tornado: 4.5.3
           ZMQ: 4.3.4
 
System Versions:
          dist: ubuntu 22.04.4 jammy
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 5.15.0-107-generic
        system: Linux
       version: Ubuntu 22.04.4 jammy

Thank you for help

[max-arnold]

Master publishes a job and connected minions decide themselves whether they match the target.

zmq_filtering might help, but it can cause other problems https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/transports/zeromq.html#publish-server-and-client

[tomm144]

@max-arnold thanks. closing...