Max size iphoto library

Hi, is there a maximum size for an iPhoto library file? Mine is 150 GB at the moment and I wonder if I can keep feeding it :-)
Thanks, MrsLaubie

i am using iphoto 9.5. Nice to hear that since 9.3 the limit is 1,000,000 items.
Well my configuration is 21.5 inch late 2012 iMac with 2.7 GHz Intel core i5, 8gb of ddr3 1600 Mhz memory, Nvidia Geforce GT 640M 512 MB Graphic and 1 tb of harddrive, still i have 500 gb of free space on my hdd, but still the iphoto is working slowly, i dont know the reason. Another thing i thought is that the meta data produce by iphoto for the keyword,faces and other stuff would probably in billions , and to handle such very small tiny files is a big overhead , and the reason why its slowing the iphoto.
Any Suggestion from your side Terence?
Dharmit.

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http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/14819/How-to-use-log-net
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I have a large iphoto library .. and when I say large i mean it .. over 500GB ... mostly RAW files... over 50,000 images
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