on my testing, on poller process supports (10K items)/(5mins avg), and it works nicely! If you make it detect 20K items or more, the latency will grow up to 20 mins at least.
my env. :
redhat9,mysql-4.0.24
LAN: 1G/internal
ZBX-1.1.6
my env. :
redhat9,mysql-4.0.24
LAN: 1G/internal
ZBX-1.1.6