# How to set listener timeout by high level rest client?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-listener-timeout-by-high-level-rest-client/125051
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-listener-timeout-by-high-level-rest-client/125051 "2018-03-21T17:40:51Z")
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### Author:  [@majid\_zarrin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/majid_zarrin)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-listener-timeout-by-high-level-rest-client/125051/1 "2018-03-21T17:40:51Z")
Hello guys
based on the [our previous problem](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-search-after-with-match-all-query-and-without-sorting/124179/2) I need read all documents in an Index with sorting. as it's data is somewhat big I confront with the search timeout.
here is the simplified code:
```
RestHighLevelClient highLevelClient = new RestHighLevelClient(
RestClient.builder(
new HttpHost("host1", port1, "http"),
new HttpHost("host2", port2, "http"))
);
// create SearchSourceBuilder
SearchSourceBuilder searchSourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder();
searchSourceBuilder.query(QueryBuilders.matchAllQuery());
searchSourceBuilder.size(5000);
searchSourceBuilder.sort(new FieldSortBuilder("_uid").order(SortOrder.ASC));
searchSourceBuilder.timeout(new TimeValue(10, TimeUnit.MINUTES));
// create SearchRequest
SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest("telemine");
searchRequest.types("messages");
searchRequest.source(searchSourceBuilder);
searchRequest.scroll(new TimeValue(10, TimeUnit.MINUTES));
// execute Search
SearchResponse searchResponse = highLevelClient.search(searchRequest);
```
and here is the error
```
java.io.IOException: listener timeout after waiting for [30000] ms
at org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient$SyncResponseListener.get(RestClient.java:663)
at org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient.performRequest(RestClient.java:222)
at org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient.performRequest(RestClient.java:194)
at org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.performRequest(RestHighLevelClient.java:443)
at org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.performRequestAndParseEntity(RestHighLevelClient.java:429)
at org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.search(RestHighLevelClient.java:368)
```
I think sorting on 1.4 billions of data is time-consuming.
I'll be appreciated if someone could help to set listener timeout.
thanks
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### Author:  [@javanna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javanna)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2018, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-listener-timeout-by-high-level-rest-client/125051/2 "2018-03-23T09:31:38Z")
Hi,
you need to increase the maxRetryTimeout and the socket timeout when you initialize the low-level REST client, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/current/\_timeouts.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/current/_timeouts.html) .
Cheers
Luca
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-listener-timeout-by-high-level-rest-client/125051/3 "2018-04-20T09:31:58Z")
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