Re: Avoid LDAP hit during completion

[Chris Wong <chris_wong@xxxxxxx>]

I'll try that today.  Unfortunately, it doesn't always freeze up at  
the first completion attempt.  I though it did for the first time,  
but found out otherwise.  It may have to do with the caching  
happening at the DirectoryService on Mac. It seems to always happen  
at the worst possible time such as doing a demo/presentation. :-)

Thanks
Chris

On Jun 7, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Chris Wong wrote:
>
> > For some reason, whenever I start a zsh shell, the first completion
> > will trigger many many LDAP lookup.
> >
> > % cd foo<TAB>
> >
> > As soon as I hit TAB, the shell appears as frozen, but at the
> > background, it's hitting the LDAP server of my company network.  This
> > will go one for a couple minutes, at least.  tcpdump and top revealed
> > that mystery to me.
>
> Are you using the new completion system (with compinit)?  The best way
> of tracking this down would be to see what the completion scripts are
> doing.  You can arrange this with
>
> _comp_setup="$_comp_setup
> setopt xtrace"
>
> This produces a huge amount of output so is useless for normal
> completion but you should be able to see where the shell is pausing  
> for
> a long time.
>
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