Based on the comment from pulp team (in BZ), we might want to consider extending the timeouts beyond the pulp defaults (30s:12h).

The comment was:
<jortel> I'd bump those timeouts using your own judgment.  the 1st number is how long the agent has to start actually running the request.  The 2nd is how long it has to complete it.  I'd make the 2nd number like 3d (3 days) or more and the 1st, like, 36h (36 hours).  The only down side is; the bigger the 1st setting, the longer it will take for the caller to get feedback that the agent is down.