George Holbert wrote: >> The notion behind lookthrough limit is that the administrator >> can dermine an upper bound for the amount of WORK that >> the server will perform for a given client's search. > > > That makes sense. > Does this mean if a sizelimit (not lookthrough) is hit, the server > continues searching the database, even though it has already returned > error code 4 to the client? No. That'd be quite silly, wouldn't it ? It _might_ do a bunch of work up front to service a search only to discover when sending entries back to the client that the size limit is exceeded.