We got an error message in the SP site which is shown below.

> "3099 items (list view threshold is 100000). The number of items in
> this list is approaching the list view threshold, which is 100000
> items. This threshold is the limit at which tasks that cause excessive
> server load (such as those involving all list items) are prohibited".

The question here is why they are seeing this warning message even though the list items currently are 3099 (which is not at all near to 100000). what is the reason for this.

**FYI,** we had manually increased the threshold limit to 100000 from the default 5000. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.