# Best practices


 Ensure the streams have been consumed and closed to be able to re-use client connections in the SDK. See the [ SDK for Java developer guide ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//sdk-for-java/latest/developer-guide/best-practices.html#bestpractice2) for more information. 

 **CLI and SDK** 

 Using the default settings, any CLI or SDK request will timeout in 60 seconds and attempt a retry. For the cases where you are running queries that can take longer than 60 seconds, it is recommended to set the CLI/SDK timeout to 0 (no timeout), or a much larger value to avoid unnecesssary retries. It is also recommended to set `MAX_ATTEMPTS` for CLI/SDK to `1` for `execute_query` to avoid any retries by the CLI/SDK. For the Boto client, set the `read_timeout` to `None`, and the `total_max_attempts` to `1`. 

```
import boto3
from botocore.config import Config
n = boto3.client('neptune-graph', 
                 config=(Config(retries={"total_max_attempts": 1, "mode": "standard"}, read_timeout=None)))
```

 For the CLI, set the `--cli-read-timeout` parameter to `0` for no timeout, and set the environment variable `AWS_MAX_ATTEMPTS` to `1` to prevent retries. 

```
export AWS_MAX_ATTEMPTS=1
aws neptune-graph execute-query \
--graph-identifier <graph-id> \
--region <region> \
--query-string "MATCH (p:Person)-[r:KNOWS]->(p1) RETURN *;" \
--cli-read-timeout 0
--language open_cypher /tmp/out.txt
```