var coll = db.exhaustColl; coll.drop(); // Include a long string in each document so that the documents are a bit bigger than 16KB. const strSize = 16 * 1024; // The docs are ~16KB and each getMore response is 16MB. Therefore, a full getMore batch will // contain about 1000 documents. Since the initial find response is limited to only 101 documents, // by inserting 3000 we ensure that three subsequent getMore replies are required. Roughly speaking, // the initial reply will consist of the first 100, the first getMore reply 1000 more, then another // 1000, and then the remaining 900. const numDocs = 3000; const str = "A" .repeat(strSize); let bulk = coll.initializeUnorderedBulkOp(); for (let i = 0; i < numDocs; ++i) { bulk.insert({key: str}); } assert .commandWorked(bulk.execute()); assert .eq(numDocs, coll.find().limit(10000).addOption(DBQuery.Option.exhaust).itcount()); Result: Error: Cannot have limit for exhaust query