[Dovecot] many SSH connexions with dsynx/SSH replication

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 6 17:40:02 EEST 2013


On 29.4.2013, at 12.48, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu at netbsd.org> wrote:

> I am trying replication over dsync/ssh, as explained there:
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Replication
> 
> I added the options below to dovecot.conf. It works, but it 
> seems there is a new SSH connexion for each user, which is a bit
> overkill performance-wise. Since I sync as root, I guess there 
> is a way of haing everything on the same SSH connexion?

Nope. Separate connection every time. Also IIRC dsync permanently drops to user privileges, so it couldn't even reuse it for another user with different UID. Use tcp/tcps for better performance.



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