diff --git a/data/templates/slapd/slapd.ldif b/data/templates/slapd/slapd.ldif
index d3ed2e053..8692d2664 100644
--- a/data/templates/slapd/slapd.ldif
+++ b/data/templates/slapd/slapd.ldif
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ olcAuthzPolicy: none
 olcConcurrency: 0
 olcConnMaxPending: 100
 olcConnMaxPendingAuth: 1000
+olcSizeLimit: 10000
 olcIdleTimeout: 0
 olcIndexSubstrIfMaxLen: 4
 olcIndexSubstrIfMinLen: 2