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Expand Up @@ -206,9 +206,11 @@ supervisor_url: # url used by the supervisor process. default is: '127.0.0.1:900

worker_log_dir: # an absolute path to a directory containing the worker's stdout and stderr logs.

max_test_timeout: # maximum number of seconds a single test is allowed to run before being killed.
# When set, any per-test timeout exceeding this value is capped to it, and tests
# with no timeout default to this value. default is: 3600
max_test_timeout: # maximum number of seconds a test group is allowed to run before being killed.
# When set, any per-test-group timeout exceeding this value is capped to it, and
# groups with no timeout default to this value. default is: 3600
# See docs/TIMEOUT-OVERVIEW.md for the full picture of how this interacts with the
# instructor-configured per-test-group timeout and the infrastructure-level job timeout.

rlimit_settings: # RLIMIT settings (see details below)
nproc: # for example, this setting sets the hard and soft limits for the number of processes available to 300
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REDIS_URL= # url of the redis database (this should be the same url set for the autotester or else the two cannot communicate)
ACCESS_LOG= # file to write access log information to (default is stdout)
ERROR_LOG= # file to write error log informatoin to (default is stderr)
SETTINGS_JOB_TIMEOUT= # the maximum runtime (in seconds) of a job that updates settings before it is interrupted (default is 60)
SETTINGS_JOB_TIMEOUT= # the maximum runtime (in seconds) of a job that updates settings before it is interrupted (default is 1200)
```

## Stack configuration
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