Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported
against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no
longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are
flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer
maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now,
we will automatically close it.

If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or
rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change
the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version
or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.)

Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
these issues to this point.

The process we're following is outlined here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp

We will be following the process here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this
doesn't happen again.

*Sigh* :-( , here is a testcase - I've tested it on RHEL5 running on my scrap:
(RHEL5 will be living longer than Fedora)

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=zero count=2
$ for i in {0..9};do for j in {0..999};do cp zero $i.$j.0;done;done

1) ... copy files to different directory with 'cp' ...
2) delete them (because of influence cache).
3) ... copy files to different directory with 'mc' ...
4) ... copy files to different directory with 'cp' ...
5) compare resulting time

My results:
$ time cp *.0 cp/

real    0m0.862s
user    0m0.130s
sys     0m0.567s

The same operation through mc takes 4.0s

4/0.563 = 7.10479573712255772646

And it means, that graphics stuff slows down copy of 10002 files more than
7-times on my local machine.
I can't imagine to use mc on congested line.

It hampers copying/deleting and overal performance of mc.
For example, why not to refresh progress bar fourtimes per second at maximum?
Most users don't want exact feedback, they _only_want_to_know_ that something
happens ... (machine is alive, not frozen)

My very first naive idea:
...
  timerWakeUp = 1;

  while(copyInProgress){

    copyBlockOfFile();

    if(timerWakeUp){
      refreshProgressBar();
      refreshPercentage();
      refreshNameOfProgram();
      timerWakeUp = 0;
    }
    else{
      /*
       * copied names of files will be thrown out
       * (they will not be displayed)
       *
       */
    }
  }
...

void timerHndl()
{
  timerWakeUp = 1;
}

Thanks for the analysis.

Please don't move Fedora/rawhide bugs to RHEL. Just clone them instead if you
wish, but bear in mind there is almost no chance it gets fixed in RHEL, since
this bug is minor and not critical in any kind and not reported by a customer. 

Furthermore if you move Fedora bugs to RHEL, they will go out from the Fedora
radar so they won't get fixed in any upcoming RHEL.

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

User jkubin's account has been closed

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The process we are following is described here: 
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Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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