David Boreham wrote: > > Yes, but O(100k) users is a very small number in the context of > what we'd call a 'large deployment'. When we do performance testing > the minumim size we test is 100,000. > > Typically one sees partitioning used only at the 10's of millions of > entries level. Or for reasons of geographical namespace distribution, which is very common in multi-city / multi-country organizations. BTW, what is the largest number of bind operations that you have been able to accomplish against a single server in a 24 hour period? -- mike