I said if the above is true then he is partially wrong, I'm saying he is wrong or I think he is wrong. Don't get bent out of shape.
Doing a query for 20 recordset is faster then doing one for 200,000. I guess I need to clarify.
Ok if what I got off of Dreamhosts site is true, where connections are 25x more demanding then a query, then wouldn't it be preferable to have your default number at something like 40 instead of 20? People would get twice as much information without having to make another connection, and this would theoretically be faster if you are not taking into consideration of things like peoples connection speed and such.
Of course if you have advertising you want to serve as many pages as possible, so you could set it to 5
