Bruce,
 Yes, I have seen the same problem with a filesystem containing only
one third the number of files you are dealing with. I did a "time ls -la"
in the directory and then changed the IDLETIMEOUT value to be twice what
time command returned.

Dennis Riley               riley AT timken DOT com
Technical Principal        330-471-3515
The Timken Company         Canton, OH

On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Bruce McCauley wrote:

> Server: MVS 2.1.0.13
> Client: AIX 4.1 ADSM 2.1.0.6g
>
> I'm attempting to do a incremental backup of a AIX client that has a 6G
> filesystem with 160,000 files in it.
> When it reaches the directory with all the files it goes into a idle wait
> state on the server and eventually
> reaches the max idle time-out setting and terminates the session.  I have
> increased the limit to 180 minutes
> and it still fails.  Has anyone seen this before or have any
> recommendations to circumvent this directory.
> I have attempted to exclude the directory but still have the same problem.
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>