: After checking message logs (/var/log/messages) we see that the : snappuller script is opening and closing ssh sessions multiple times : within a very short timeframe, in one case an ssh session is being : opened and closed 21 times within .3 seconds. This means that an ssh : login is being executed more than 3000 times daily. Without having : looked at the scripts in-depth can somebody confirm whether this : behavior is normal or not. Is this the cause of the rsync process?
you don't nee much depth to see that snappuller only explicitly execs ssh 3 times per invocation. The rest (by process of elimination) must be the normal behavior of the (single) call to rsync. -Hoss