Limit number of versions returned when loading list items with versions

[nozzrangar]

Hello community.

I'm trying to figure something out and hoping that someone could help me get to an answer.

I'm getting a list item and loading the list item versions like this:

listItem = await list.Items.GetByIdAsync(itemId,
  li => li.All,
  li => li.Versions);

This has been working pretty well but now I came across few list items that have tens of thousands of versions, the highest I've seen is almost 80.000 versions. When this code runs to get these items and load all the versions it takes 30-60 seconds and consumes a lot of memory, obviously.

So my question is, is there any way to limit the number of versions that are loaded in to memory?
I've tried to add .Take to versions but that returns no versions

listItem = await list.Items.GetByIdAsync(itemId,
  li => li.All,
  li => li.Versions.Take(5));

[Adam-it]

Sorry for the late reply.
What if you try to query versions separately after loading the list item.

So first get just the list items without the versions

var listItem = await list.Items.GetByIdAsync(itemId, li => li.All);

and then load only the first 5 versions via a separate LINQ query

var recentVersions = await listItem.Versions.Take(5).ToListAsync();