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1) Message boards : Number crunching : How to automatically end long running tasks? (Message 3763) Posted 16 days ago by Key Post: Hi, is it possible to use an app_config entry to automatically kill long-running tasks that will just error anyway? I had a task (https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/workunit.php?wuid=462370749) run on CPU overnight for nearly 8.5 hours, instead of the usual 20 minutes, only to then be marked as an error. There have been others and they are admittedly quite rare, but it's very wasteful of resources to run for so long to no purpose. Accepting that some tasks may just run for longer than 'normal' but it seems sensible to 'kill' any tasks that take more than say 1.5 or 2 times longer. Thoughts and suggestions much appreciated.