MongoDB 2.6 introduced the .maxTimeMS() cursor method, which allows you to specify a max running time for each query. This is awesome for ad-hoc queries, but I wondered if there was a way to set this value on a per-instance or per-database (or even per-collection) level, to try and prevent locking in general.
And if so, could that value then be OVERWRITTEN on a per-query basis? I would love to set an instance level timeout of 3000ms or thereabouts (since that would be a pretty extreme running time for queries issued by my application), but then be able to ignore it if I had a report to run.
Here's the documentation from mongodb.org, for reference: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/method/cursor.maxTimeMS/#behaviors
Jason,
Currently MongoDB does not support a global / universal "maxTimeMS". At the moment this option is applicable to the individual operations only. If you wish to have such a global setting available in MongoDB, I would suggest raising a SERVER ticket at https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER along with use-cases that can take advantage of such setting.