Poller capacity

Hi there,

Is anybody knows here why Solarwinds recommends to poll no more than 10 000 elements per polling engine, no matter how the machine is built? Can a super server, with plenty of RAM, CPU and disk IO, can poll more that 10 000 elements?

For example, can a single server, with 16Gb RAM, 2 quad core 2GHz Cpu, and 4 15k 300Gb disk RAID 10 run more than 10 000 elements, with a 5 minutes polling rate? If not, why? Is it a hardware limitation or an OS related limitation?

Thanks!