[OAI-implementers] How many records should typically be returned over OAI-PMH?

[Dan Stowell]

Hi,

I'm implementing OAI-PMH and at first I decided that my system could easily 
return 2000 records in a single OAI-PMH request. Unfortunately the "OAI 
Repository Explorer" doesn't seem to be able to cope with that much data 
since it ended up having timeout and too-much-data errors.

I've now reduced that number to 500 and my repository now validates 
happily. But is there a rule of thumb for how many records it's "polite" to 
return, or how many a typical OAI-PMH harvester "expects" to have to deal with?

Thanks
Dan

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Dan Stowell
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