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title: Frappe edit background job timeout
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## Frappe edit background job timeout

Frappe default time is 300s, So if your job runtime over 300s, Frappe will throw below exception

rq.timeouts.JobTimeoutException: Task exceeded maximum timeout value (300 seconds)

But some job need spend a lot of time, So we can set below settings in common_site_config.json

"workers": {
    "default": {
        "timeout": 900
    },
    "short": {
        "timeout": 900
    }
 }

Because frappe background_jobs.py allow overwrite settings from common_site_setting.json

# https://github.com/frappe/frappe/blob/develop/frappe/utils/background_jobs.py#L26
common_site_config = frappe.get_conf()
custom_workers_config = common_site_config.get("workers", {})
default_timeout = 300

return {
    "default": default_timeout,
    "short": default_timeout,
    "long": 1500,
    # This Part allow custom_workers_config to override
    **{
        worker: config.get("timeout", default_timeout)
        for worker, config in custom_workers_config.items()
    }
}