I have about 100k alert definitions and the view fails to load with the following error:

Failed to fetch alert definition data. This occurred because the server is taking a long time to complete this request. Please be aware that the server may still be processing your request and it may complete shortly. You can check the server logs to see if any abnormal errors occurred.
Severity :	
Warning
	
Time :	
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6:09:07 PM Etc/GMT+4
Detail :	
com.google.gwt.http.client.RequestTimeoutException:A request timeout has expired after 10000 ms
--- STACK TRACE FOLLOWS ---
A request timeout has expired after 10000 ms
    at Unknown.com_google_gwt_http_client_RequestTimeoutException_$RequestTimeoutException__Lcom_google_gwt_http_client_RequestTimeoutException_2Lcom_google_gwt_http_client_Request_2ILcom_google_gwt_http_client_RequestTimeoutException_2(Unknown source:0)
    at Unknown.com_google_gwt_http_client_Request_$fireOnTimeout__Lcom_google_gwt_http_client_Request_2Lcom_google_gwt_http_client_RequestCallback_2V(Unknown source:0)
    at Unknown.com_google_gwt_http_client_Request$3_run__V(Unknown source:0)
    at Unknown.com_google_gwt_user_client_Timer_fire__V(Unknown source:0)
    at Unknown.anonymous(Unknown source:0)
    at Unknown.com_google_gwt_core_client_impl_Impl_entry0__Ljava_lang_Object_2Ljava_lang_Object_2Ljava_lang_Object_2Ljava_lang_Object_2(Unknown source:0)
    at Unknown.anonymous(Unknown source:0)
    at Unknown.anonymous(Unknown source:0)

We should tune the performance of the select query and/or increase the gwt rpc timeout.