[en] It has been found that it is necessary to impose a flux limit on the thermal electron transport in diffusion calculations of laser-produced plasmas to explain the observed partition of energy into fast and slow ions and x-rays. The effect of such a limit is to retain the deposited energy in the corona of the target. This containment increases the energy loss to fast ions, reduces the x-ray emission, and reduces the hydrodynamic efficiency. Although calculations for plasmas produced by lasers having wavelengths of 1 μm or shorter agree with experiment when a flux limit which is 1/30 times the classical flux limit is applied to the electron thermal flux, I will show that such a flux limit cannot explain the results obtained for 10 μm lasers. In this case it will be shown necessary to invoke a flux limit on the hot or suprathermal electrons