78659cb4c09310b5094ba7fa612c476201a26d2a
galt
  Wed Sep 12 14:16:03 2012 -0700
Revert "removing arbitrary limit on bigBed -- let users have more control"
This reverts commit e4aec0c172a44c018885a6b9f33b7d65a8b8047b.

I guess we are back to having a limit, but it will be increased from 500 to 3000

diff --git src/hg/hgTracks/bigBedTrack.c src/hg/hgTracks/bigBedTrack.c
index 3c3ff17..9324806 100644
--- src/hg/hgTracks/bigBedTrack.c
+++ src/hg/hgTracks/bigBedTrack.c
@@ -42,31 +42,31 @@
     bbi = track->bbiFile = bigBedFileOpen(fileName);
     }
 return bbi;
 }
 
 struct bigBedInterval *bigBedSelectRange(struct track *track,
 	char *chrom, int start, int end, struct lm *lm)
 /* Return list of intervals in range. */
 {
 struct bigBedInterval *result = NULL;
 /* protect against temporary network error */
 struct errCatch *errCatch = errCatchNew();
 if (errCatchStart(errCatch))
     {
     struct bbiFile *bbi = fetchBbiForTrack(track);
-    int maxItems = maximumTrackItems(track);
+    int maxItems = max(BIGBEDMAXIMUMITEMS, maximumTrackItems(track)); // do not allow it to exceed BIGBEDMAXIMUMITEMS for bigBed
     result = bigBedIntervalQuery(bbi, chrom, start, end, maxItems + 1, lm);
     if (slCount(result) > maxItems)
 	{
 	track->limitedVis = tvDense;
 	track->limitedVisSet = TRUE;
 	result = NULL;
 	AllocArray(track->summary, insideWidth);
 	if (bigBedSummaryArrayExtended(bbi, chrom, start, end, insideWidth, track->summary))
 	    {
 	    char *denseCoverage = trackDbSettingClosestToHome(track->tdb, "denseCoverage");
 	    if (denseCoverage != NULL)
 		{
 		double endVal = atof(denseCoverage);
 		if (endVal <= 0)
 		    {