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action execution timeout after 10 seconds not 10 minutes.

Disclaimer: I hope I am on a wrong track.
Today I am a bit puzzled I use self hosted convex and have a problem with an action that timeouts after 10 seconds. The Doc says 10 minutes: https://docs.convex.dev/production/state/limits. But the code (Rust backend code) indeed says 10 seconds! So either the documentation is wrong or the code: https://github.com/get-convex/convex-backend/blob/main/crates/isolate/src/tests/action.rs#L63 (test which expects a timeout after 10 seconds)

The action which is timeouting is simple as:

export const debugLong = action(async (ctx) => {
  console.log("debugLong START", new Date().toISOString());
  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 12000));
  console.log("debugLong END (should reach here if >10s allowed)", new Date().toISOString());
  return { ok: true };
});

export const debugLong = action(async (ctx) => {
  console.log("debugLong START", new Date().toISOString());
  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 12000));
  console.log("debugLong END (should reach here if >10s allowed)", new Date().toISOString());
  return { ok: true };
});

export const debugLong = action(async (ctx) => {
  console.log("debugLong START", new Date().toISOString());
  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 12000));
  console.log("debugLong END (should reach here if >10s allowed)", new Date().toISOString());
  return { ok: true };
});

export const debugLong = action(async (ctx) => {
  console.log("debugLong START", new Date().toISOString());
  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 12000));
  console.log("debugLong END (should reach here if >10s allowed)", new Date().toISOString());
  return { ok: true };
});

I am in the V8 context, so no

use node

use node

use node

use node and would expect that this action just runs. Which is not the case and leads to

24.10.2025, 19:03:49 [CONVEX A(functions/ai:debugLong)] Function execution timed out (maximum duration: 10s)

24.10.2025, 19:03:49 [CONVEX A(functions/ai:debugLong)] Function execution timed out (maximum duration: 10s)

24.10.2025, 19:03:49 [CONVEX A(functions/ai:debugLong)] Function execution timed out (maximum duration: 10s)

24.10.2025, 19:03:49 [CONVEX A(functions/ai:debugLong)] Function execution timed out (maximum duration: 10s)

I hope this has something to do with wrong runtime (like node execution which should not be) and I hope 10 minutes is the limit intendend.

Thanks (also for the support so far)

GitHub

convex-backend/crates/isolate/src/tests/action.rs at main · get-co...

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action execution timeout after 10 seconds not 10 minutes.

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