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Search: time limit

wyang6
Path Finder

[subsearch]: Search auto-finalized after time limit reached (60 seconds). Results may be incomplete.

How can I set/increase the time limit? Thank you.

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svenwendler
Path Finder

I had the same issue. I fixed it by changing the default settings from

[join]
subsearch_maxout = 50000
subsearch_maxtime = 60
subsearch_timeout = 120

to

[join]
subsearch_maxout = 50000
subsearch_maxtime = 360
subsearch_timeout = 360

in limits.conf

jmnicolino
New Member

I have the same problem with Search auto-finalized after time limit reached (60 seconds). Results may be incomplete.

I've changed the limit.conf as shown below

[subsearch]

maxout = 10000

maxtime = 200

ttl = 300

but, still having the problem after even restarting the server.

Any else I can do????

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matthew_tiffany
Explorer

I don't know if anyone is still reading this, but if you're doing a join it has a separate subsearch maxtime variable that might need to be changed too.

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