uWSGI request timeout in Python

You're propably looking for the harakiri parameter - if request takes longer than specified harakiri time (in seconds), the request will be dropped and the corresponding worker recycled.

For standalone uwsgi (ini config):

[uwsgi]
http = 0.0.0.0:80
harakiri = 30
...

If you have nginx proxy before uwsgi you have to increase timeout as well:

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://my_uwsgi_upstream;
    proxy_read_timeout 30s;
    proxy_send_timeout 30s;
  }

If you want (for some strange reason) higher timeout than 60s, you might consider communication over uwsgi protocol. Configuration is quite similar nginx site:

location / {
    uwsgi_read_timeout 120s;
    uwsgi_send_timeout 120s;
    uwsgi_pass  my_upstream;
    include     uwsgi_params;
}

uwsgi:

[uwsgi]
socket = 0.0.0.0:80
protocol = uwsgi
harakiri = 120
...

Setting http-timeout worked for me. I have http = :8080, so I assume if you use file system socket, you have to use socket-timeout.