I think Howard explained the distinction in his reply, but only about 5K entries fully loaded. The resulting gospdescription.bdb is ~82Mb, and string searches are very fast in all languages. I have another DB behind the same server at about 250K entries, which has enough indexed interrelationships to keep slapadd busy for many hours. It has never seen a lock issue, either.
--Quanah
-- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Developer ITSS/Shared Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html