Cancel an already executing task with Celery?

Question

I have been reading the doc and searching but cannot seem to find a straight answer:

Can you cancel an already executing task? (as in the task has started, takes a w

Answer 1

See the following options for tasks: time_limit, soft_time_limit (or you can set it for workers). If you want to control not only time of execution, then see expires argument of apply_async method.