mongoengine default timeout configuration

Question

I have a django project running on top of MongoDB via mongoengine. After I got inconsistent results for list querysets (object.filter() etc.) I've set the queryset to run without a timeout - by calling queryset.timeout(False) - and that seemed to solve the issue.
My questions are: 1. What is the default timeout settings for mongoengine? 2. Is there a way to control the timeout configuration for mongoengine?

Answer 1

1. The default timeout isn't set by mongoengine so it falls back to the mongodb cursor timeout which is 10 minutes (see doc )

2. There is no specific support for it in mongoengine but mongodb seems to offer that feature with the cursorTimeoutMillis parameter (see doc ).