Make Worker Timeout Configurable (#37)

* Make Worker Timeout Configurable

- defaults to 1800 seconds
- can be configured through environment for systems with weaker CPUs
- description added to documentation

Co-authored-by: evilsidekick <>

src/paperless/settings.py

@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ Q_CLUSTER = {
     'catch_up': False,
     'recycle': 1,
     'retry': 1800,
-    'timeout': 1800,
+    'timeout': int(os.getenv("PAPERLESS_WORKER_TIMEOUT", 1800)),
     'workers': TASK_WORKERS,
     'redis': os.getenv("PAPERLESS_REDIS", "redis://localhost:6379")
 }