Run celery periodic task for 1 hour, it it takes more then 1 hour, expire that task?

Question

I have a periodic task for data purging which run once a day.

I want that task to run only for 1 hour. If the duration of processing that task is more than 1 hour, then expire that task. It will run again the next day for 1 hour.

I would like to do this is because if the traffic is high then that particular cerely task keeps on running for 10-15 hours.

Answer 1

You can set up the task time limits as per documentation

If you are going to set it on particular task you can use task_time_limit or task_soft_time_limit depending on your usage characteristics