Not sure if was vroom, because the first patch is from demerphq and seems to have used a Everything engine page as a base.

But I found a later discussion justifying the 300...

tye: Blowing out the memory consumption of an Apache child is something that has been proven to have profound impact on the performance of the whole site and something that won't be undone for quite a long time

I think my guess wasn't too far fetched.

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^4: Limit of 300 in "older entries"? by LanX
in thread Limit of 300 in "older entries"? by etj

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