The DCS commands are passed to remote servers for execution. This means that your system must have network connectivity for the entire time your DCS command is running. If, for any reason, when the DCS server starts to process your request, it can not contact the DCS Client on your system or forward progress is delayed for too long, the request will be automatically terminated. The reason this is done is because the MSS is a shared resource, it is not fair to other users to tie up DCS Server resources on commands that may never complete.

The MSS is limited in the number of operations it can perform at any one time. For example, during periods when few requests are active, your metadata requests may process at the rate of 40 MSS files or directories per second. Thus, it may take a long time to process MSS directory trees with many thousands of files, especially during the busy times of the day. You can use the dcsq command to see if your request is active, or is queued. Some MSS enhancements are planned for the near future to improve the performance of metadata commands.