How to remove/increase execution timeout of the geth's evm?

Question

I am performing some benchmarking with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. I have a contract with just one function that calculates the prime numbers until 100k. However, I am not able to get my results as the execution in geth is limited to 5 seconds. When I try to perform a call, I get the following error:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":68,"error":{"code":-32000,"message":"execution aborted (timeout = 5s)"}}

The gas limit is not a problem here, I increased it (in the genesis block) to a large enough value so it would not impact the execution. I initialized geth with the following command:

geth --datadir=./data/ --networkid 68 --rpc.gascap 100000000000 --http --allow-insecure-unlock console

I thought the problem might be their VM so I tried using a different instance of the EVM called evmone using the --vm-evm option, but it didn't help with anything. Also, geth does not provide any command-line options to set the timeout. There are --metric options though, but I do not think they have any relation.

I just need to increase the timeout limit to a large enough value in order to perform my experiments. I hope this limitation is not hard-coded and there is some solution.

Can you help?

Answer 1

Ran into the same problem. Looking at the code, there seems to be a hardcoded timeout to 5 seconds.

Answer 2

You can run geth with the --rpc.evmtimeout flag to change the 5s timeout. If you set it to 0 , then timeout will be infinite. Check geth --help for more info.