diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index e857c7ea80..16ca73a44e 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -16820,3 +16820,10 @@ David  31 Aug 2004
         main.C
         sched_send.C
         sched_shmem.h
+
+Jeff   31 Aug 2004
+    - limit workunit enumeration in the assimilator to 1000.
+
+    sched/
+        assimilator.C
+
diff --git a/sched/assimilator.C b/sched/assimilator.C
index af912d4d02..11cbced5a4 100644
--- a/sched/assimilator.C
+++ b/sched/assimilator.C
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ bool do_pass(APP& app) {
 
     check_stop_daemons();
 
-    sprintf(buf, "where appid=%d and assimilate_state=%d", app.id, ASSIMILATE_READY);
+    sprintf(buf, "where appid=%d and assimilate_state=%d limit 1000", app.id, ASSIMILATE_READY);
     while (!wu.enumerate(buf)) {
         vector<RESULT> results;     // must be inside while()!
         did_something = true;