Each SharePoint 2010 web application instance comes with a variety of throttling settings which allows administrators to control how intensive daily farm operations are allowed to be. If you realize that certain new functionality in your site is used heavily and takes resources away from your core business functionality, such as collaboration features, you may choose to use options in this recipe to get the heavy usage under control.
In particular, this recipe will focus on setting thresholds for rendering list views and items that can be retrieved from the view. In this scenario, it's important to understand the difference between the setting of a threshold using the Central Administration option and the individual option on a view and how it impacts custom components that are being developed on a view.
We'll also take a look at how you can throttle operations related to list lookup retrieval and cascade actions performed on linked lists. In...