# Timeout - function took too long to execute

**URL:** https://community.appfarm.io/t/timeout-function-took-too-long-to-execute/421
**Category:** Ask the community
**Created:** [April 20, 2023, 8:35am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/timeout-function-took-too-long-to-execute/421 "2023-04-20T08:35:31Z")
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### Author: ![anon32498448](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@anon32498448](https://community.appfarm.io/u/anon32498448)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2023, 10:52am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/timeout-function-took-too-long-to-execute/421/2 "2023-04-20T10:52:11Z")

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Hi,

a few questions: can you give us some hints on what these Services are doing:

- what action nodes are you using?

- how are you manipulating the data?  
etc.

- has this been an ongoing issue or started happening recently?

Maybe this post might be useful:

> [@Error message when running a service: FunctionEvalTimeoutError: Eval timeout - function took too long to execute (\>2000ms)](https://community.appfarm.io/t/error-message-when-running-a-service-functionevaltimeouterror-eval-timeout-function-took-too-long-to-execute-2000ms/290/5):
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> It’s possible that the timeout limit will be reevaluated at some point, but we don’t see it as a sustainable solution to the problem: independently of the limit, there will always be a case of someone exceeding it, so we’d end up in an infinity loop wink Skip Function Properties should resolve the issue for most cases, but there are a couple more things worth looking into: Use runtime data sources whenever possible When iterating, avoid bigger functions inside of the loop Note that for oper…

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