# There are no use of timeout for search? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 17, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-are-no-use-of-timeout-for-search/75446 "2017-02-17T08:15:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![famoss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@famoss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/famoss)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-are-no-use-of-timeout-for-search/75446/1 "2017-02-17T08:15:38Z")
I set the search timeout by 1s,but there is no use. url:`http://xxx:9200/flume-*/detail/_search?timeout=1s` resp:`"took": 40356, "timed_out": true, "_shards": { "total": 495, "successful": 495, "failed": 0 },` Is there any setting to make the `timeout` useful? es V5.2.1 ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-are-no-use-of-timeout-for-search/75446/2 "2017-02-17T12:51:36Z")
Most sections of code are time-checked but some are not e.g. if loading fielddata for the first time this un-inversion of data is for the benefit of potentially many queries not just the first one that needs fielddata so we don't abort that loop. However, other scenarios might be a runaway script that is doing something funky. What query is causing this and what version are you on? It's useful for us to diagnose examples of runaway searches. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-are-no-use-of-timeout-for-search/75446/3 "2017-03-17T12:52:03Z")
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