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Pipeline Timeout Exception Question
Kyle M
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API Pipeline

Hi all,

I'm working on a CustomFactor and am running into a Timeout Exception in the algorithm backtester. Obviously, it suggests that my pipeline is taking too long to run. However, I'm not sure about which part of the pipeline it's referring to. That is, is the computation being performed for a single asset's custom factor taking too long, or is the pipeline computation for all assets for the given day taking too long?

The latter would require me to shrink the universe I'm evaluating on, while the prior may be slightly more difficult in that I need to make my custom factor more efficient.

In short, is a Timeout Exception thrown when the entire pipeline takes too long to compute, or when a single asset within the pipeline takes too long?

Thanks!

1 response
Ramon Martin

Hi,
Take a look to this code:
https://www.quantopian.com/posts/timing-code

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