What is the conservation task?

Why is the task being terminated due to a timeout reached error?

• I've scheduled a task to run every 30 mins in Task Scheduler in Windows Server 2008. And in the task settings, the option "stop the task if it runs longer than" is set to '1 day'. I have noticed that sometimes the task is being terminated after it has run for 10 minutes. Even the subsequent runs are also being terminated with the same error. "Task stopping due to timeout reached" Manually ending and restarting the task seems to solve the issue. What can be the cause for this kind of behavior? For a different task, the option "stop the task if it runs longer than" is set to '4 hours' and the task runs for more than 8 hours with out being terminated. Does this option "stop the task if it runs longer than" has some other dependency? What am I missing here?

• Answer:

  For the first one it's possible that the task scheduler does not detect it started successfully, the other one might be a bug (Server 2008 appears old-ish to me)