Ralph, > To watch progress, try > > strace -e openat flist -recurse -sequence xyz -all >/dev/null
thanks. Ken's hint about ulimit, and questioning the number of folders, seems to have cleared things up. > Also, is there anything odd about your tree of directories? > Does it have cycles? Symlinks? Is it all on local disk? just for reference: other than the number of folders (if 3000 is odd), no. no cycles, no symlinks, all on local (non-spinning, nvram) "disk". cheers, Greg
