> work for me, as it takes 5 minutes until I see all presences (which > SUCKS!).
Sounds like you have a much bigger problem then. If your server takes 5 minutes to process all presence from your contacts, it means your initial roster get with your schema will take 5 minutes as well, so you won't be able to IM *at all* during that period. I really don't see the problem with presence flood. Any presence you get as a <presence/> stanza will have to be in your initial roster get too, which means that your initial roster will be a huge stanza (possibly exceeding server and client limits), and you'll lose all the advantages of asynchronous roster building (i.e. your client will have to block until your server is ready). cheers, Remko
