diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/limit.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/limit.py
index fedc7d2d1..0f6311959 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/limit.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/limit.py
@@ -1,37 +1,42 @@
 """
-RequestLimitMiddleware: Limits the scheduler request queue from the point of
-view of the spider. That is, if the scheduler queue contains an equal or
-greater ammount of requests than the specified limit, the new requests
-(generated by the spider) will be ignored.
+RequestLimitMiddleware: Limits the scheduler request queue size. When spiders
+try to schedule more than the allowed amount of requests the new requests
+(returned by the spider) will be dropped.
 
-The limit is setted from the spider attribute "requests_queue_size". If not
-found, from the scrapy setting "REQUESTS_QUEUE_SIZE". If not found, no limit
-will be applied. If given a value of 0, no limit will be applied.
+The limit can be set using the spider attribue `requests_queue_size` or the
+setting "REQUESTS_QUEUE_SIZE". If not specified (or 0), no limit will be
+applied. 
 """
 
 from scrapy.core.engine import scrapyengine
+from scrapy.core.exceptions import NotConfigured
 from scrapy.conf import settings
 from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy import log
 
 class RequestLimitMiddleware(object):
-    #_last_queue_size = 0
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.max_queue_size = settings.getint("REQUESTS_QUEUE_SIZE")
+        if not self.max_queue_size:
+            raise NotConfigured
+
     def process_result(self, response, result, spider):
         requests = []
-        other = []
-        [requests.append(r) if isinstance(r, Request) else other.append(r) for r in result]
+        items = []
+        for r in result:
+            if isinstance(r, Request):
+                requests.append(r)
+            else:
+                items.append(r)
 
-        max_pending = spider.requests_queue_size if hasattr(spider,"requests_queue_size") else settings.getint("REQUESTS_QUEUE_SIZE")
-        if not max_pending:
-            accepted = requests
-        else:
-            free_slots = max_pending - len(scrapyengine.scheduler.pending_requests[spider.domain_name])
-            accepted = requests[:free_slots]
-            dropped = set(requests) - set(accepted)
-            if dropped:
-                for r in dropped:
-                    log.msg("Ignoring link (max schedule queue size reached): %s " % r.url, level=log.WARNING, domain=spider.domain_name)
-        #actual_size = len(scrapyengine.scheduler.pending_requests[spider.domain_name])
-        #log.msg("queue size: %d (%+d)" % (actual_size, actual_size - self._last_queue_size) )
-        #self._last_queue_size = actual_size
-        return accepted + other
+        max_pending = getattr(spider, 'requests_queue_size', self.max_queue_size)
+        if max_pending:
+            pending_count = len(scrapyengine.scheduler.pending_requests.get(spider.domain_name, []))
+            free_slots = max_pending - pending_count
+            dropped_count = len(requests) - free_slots
+            if dropped_count > 0:
+                requests = requests[:free_slots]
+                log.msg("Dropping %d request(s) because the maximum schedule size (%d) has been exceeded" % \
+                        (dropped_count, max_pending), level=log.WARNING, domain=spider.domain_name)
+        return requests + items