> > That's more of a question for the kdepim guys. I thought that LDAP 
> > lookups in KDE 3.1 would only happen if they are executed explicitely 
> > in KAddressBook but not during autocompletion exactly for the reason 
> > you give above (much too slow in case of large directories). Tobias? 
> > Cornelius? Is this correct or am I wrong?
> It depends on the configuration of the reporters KAddressBook. If he
> created a LDAP resource, all entries are loaded into memory in the
> AddressLineEdit (the line edit with the autocompletion).
> If he has just configured a LDAP server, the lookup is done asynchronous
> and there shouldn't be any blocking...

Just as a data-point, I am hitting an ldap server with an absolute
crapload of entries (random guess would put it in the
multiple-hundreds-of-thousands, and the ldap completion is actually
annoyingly fast.  It starts giving completions on the first letter I type :-)

D.A.Bishop
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