diff --git a/lib/algos/list/delimiterCurrent.ts b/lib/algos/list/delimiterCurrent.ts
index a839101dc..0fe11d511 100644
--- a/lib/algos/list/delimiterCurrent.ts
+++ b/lib/algos/list/delimiterCurrent.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,19 @@ class DelimiterCurrent extends DelimiterMaster {
             };
         }
 
+        // Limit the number of documents MongoDB returns to bound the
+        // in-memory sort when lifecycle indexes are used (these indexes
+        // order by value.last-modified, forcing a re-sort on _id). Without
+        // a limit, MongoDB must sort all matching documents — which can
+        // exceed the 100MB memory cap and spill to disk.
+        // We use maxScannedLifecycleListingEntries (default 10,000) as the
+        // bound because it counts documents scanned, which maps directly
+        // to cursor documents regardless of bucket format (v0 or v1).
+        // The +1 allows the listing algorithm to detect truncation.
+        if (this.maxScannedLifecycleListingEntries) {
+            params.limit = this.maxScannedLifecycleListingEntries + 1;
+        }
+
         return params;
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/algos/list/delimiterCurrent.spec.js b/tests/unit/algos/list/delimiterCurrent.spec.js
index 0c06ac07f..653477d94 100644
--- a/tests/unit/algos/list/delimiterCurrent.spec.js
+++ b/tests/unit/algos/list/delimiterCurrent.spec.js
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ function getListingKey(key, vFormat) {
                 },
                 gt: getListingKey('premark', v),
                 lt: getListingKey('prf', v),
+                limit: maxScannedLifecycleListingEntries + 1,
             };
             assert.deepStrictEqual(delimiter.genMDParams(), expectedParams);
             assert.strictEqual(delimiter.maxScannedLifecycleListingEntries, 2);