In https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_A-MQ/6.1/html-single/Tuning_Guide/ the grey box under "Destination policies to control paging" states

The number of messages paged in for browsing cannot exceed the destination's memoryLimit setting.

I don't believe that is the case anymore based on JIRA comment
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-4495?focusedCommentId=13647471&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13647471