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Qlik Replicate Task Stop timeout occurred

lyka — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:51:24 GMT

This article aims to explain the timeout behavior of Qlik Replicate and how to approach it.

The current behavior of stopping the task is as follows: the process waits for open transactions to be completed. If they are not completed within the timeout of a few minutes, the task will be killed

Details

Qlik Replicate will wait for 30 minutes after stopping the task before the timeout happens.
Reducing the size of the bulk may help in some cases, as it will decrease the chance of the task timing out.

Ghost Processes

The Stop timeout occurred error may also lead to ghost processes for the timed-out tasks.

When this happens, and you try to resume or start the task, it will appear as if the task starts but makes no progress.

To resolve this type of issue: stop the task and check for the repctl processes. There should be no repctl process running for a stopped task. If there is one, then you need to kill the repctl process.

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Re: Qlik Replicate Task Stop timeout occurred

kutay_cilingiroglu — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 06:51:27 GMT

Hello,

We need to decrease the stop timeout parameter which is set 30 minutes default.

Is there any repctl.cfg parameter or something else to configure this parameter?

Many Thanks.

Re: Qlik Replicate Task Stop timeout occurred

KellyHobson — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:40:31 GMT

Hey @kutay_cilingiroglu ,

The timeouts after 30 minutes is by design for Replicate. When you stop a task, it will wait for 30 minutes before it gets a timeout error.

If you need an enhancement request regarding the stop timeout, please visit our Ideations page. As a Qlik Community member, you can actively engage with our Product Management team, vote on a product idea coming for other Qlik customers, submit your own ideas and get feedback from other members.

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Suggest-an-Idea/idb-p/qlik-ideas

To get started please see our article: "Getting Started with Ideas": https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Product-Insight-Blog/Getting-Started-with-Ideas/ba-p/1684011

Please let us know if you have any additional questions!

Best,

Kelly

Re: Qlik Replicate Task Stop timeout occurred

Dana_Baldwin — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:33:53 GMT

Hi @kutay_cilingiroglu

In case you are not aware, when a task times out while stopping, best practice is to start the task from timestamp taking any latency the task had into consideration, rather than resuming the task.

Regards,

Dana