[Fedora-directory-users] lookthrough vs. sizelimit

[David Boreham]

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.