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Is it possible to increase zombie killer from 10 mins to 15 mins for prefect-server?

Hey <@U02FZM6CKAT>, you would need to edit the source <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/server/blob/master/src/prefect_server/services/towel/zombie_killer.py|here> . Why are you thinking of doing this?

well, I have a task that sometime runs longer than 10 mins

That shouldn’t kill the heartbeat. Do you get an error saying the heartbeat was lost or not found?

i’m getting something like this:
```Pod prefect-job-7c752673-45cmz failed.
	Container 'flow-container-punct' state: terminated
		Exit Code:: 137
		Reason: OOMKilled```

This is saying that you ran out of memory though, which causes the heartbeat to die. And then the Prefect Zombie Killer is just alerting you that the pod died

ah ok good to know. let me investigate. thank you again Kevin!