I created this JIRA to document the issue. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-221
Max On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Maxime Beauchemin < maximebeauche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you using the LocalExecutor? there's a limitation around using the > task timeout in LocalExecutor under some circumstances. If that's the case > you should see this somewhere in your logs: > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/blob/master/airflow/utils/timeout.py#L45 > > We may want to move the logic enforcing the timeout from the context > manager/signal approach to BaseJob. > > Max > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Alyssa Kwan <alyssa.k...@cloverhealth.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We're having trouble with a `PythonOperator`'s `execution_timeout`. It's >> being set directly in the constructor as `datetime.timedelta(minutes=10)`. >> However, the task doesn't timeout until almost 5 hours is passed. This >> behavior is pretty consistent. It's merely a SQL query issued by the Python >> callable that can get deadlocked. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> Alyssa > > >