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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Watson Studio
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 27, 2019

Update session-timeout-minutes value to at least 5760

Our customers have long running modeling applications that they were running.  RStudio default timeout value is only 360 minutes.  These processes were running in excess of 24 hours so the session was lost.  We adjusted the timeout value to 4 days (5760) and ran the processes from the terminal to get around this issue in a custom image.  We would like to see a longer timeout value in the default RStudio image if possible.

Needed by Date Mar 31, 2020
  • Guest
    Jan 10, 2020

    Thanks for the update.  Just didn't want to maintain a custom image to handle this situation.  I am glad that is was addressed in the new version.

  • Guest
    Jan 10, 2020

    The feature is already exists in higher version of the product (2.x), and hence will not be a part of 1.x.