This tutorial will helpful to understand about pagesize in cgridview or listview. Here i added the source code to show number of records per page.
$criteria=new CDbCriteria; if($isdesired!=''){ $criteria->addCondition("status=1"); $pagination=array('pageSize'=>8); $dataProvider=new CActiveDataProvider('Document', array('criteria'=>$criteria,'pagination'=>$pagination )); $this->render('documentviewindex', array('dataProvider'=>$dataProvider, )); }