I was deleting a folder that contained about 4000 files in it with using MC through telnet. After a couple hundred files the server just stopped responding. Before really getting into it or trying it all over again, does anyone have issues with MC? I thought it would be the simplest and easiest thing to use for large amounts of local copying/moving.

 

 

I haven't looked at MC's code but beware recursion.

 

Before I did it the same thing again I'd be tailing syslog in another telnet session.  At minimum, open top in another session and watch the memory line while your big mc commands are running. You might have time to bail before things go sideways.

 

Edit: My first question should have been "what's wrong with cp & mv?" If that's all you're doing, and in bulk, those would be the lightest-weight methods. Otherwise, to figure out what's happening with MC, we have to know more about the hierarchy, your available memory, etc.