That clarifies it perfectly. Thanks for the example! Richard Megginson wrote: > In general, lookthroughlimit is much stricter than sizelimit. > > For example, let's say a user wants to do an unindexed search for > (description=*something*). Let's say that there are 5000 users and > 1000 users who have a description attribute that matches *something*. > The server will have to search through every entry in sequential > (indeterminate) order to find matches. > > If you set lookthroughlimit to be 1000, and set sizelimit to be > unlimited, the server will look at up to 1000 entries looking for > description=*something*. Some of them may match, some of them may > not, and the server will return 1000 or fewer entries > (indeterminate). The server is limited in the amount of work it > performs searching through the database. > > If you set sizelimit to be 1000, and set lookthroughlimit to be > unlimited, the server could look at all 5000 user entries, until it > finds 1000 entries which match, at which point it will terminate the > search and return the 1000 entries to the user.
