[Fedora-directory-users] lookthrough vs. sizelimit

[George Holbert]

> No. That'd be quite silly, wouldn't it ?

Absolutely :), that's why I was curious.
So correct me if this wrong, but sounds like either of the two can be 
used to limit how much the server works on a search, but they each take 
effect at a different part of the search algorithm.
I still wonder why you'd choose one over the other to implement result 
limits?  Seems kind of like a door with two knobs.  Maybe there's some 
specific cases where one is preferable.

Thanks again for the replies,
-- George


David Boreham wrote:
> George Holbert wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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?
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> No. That'd be quite silly, wouldn't it ?
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> 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.
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