[API reference](https://evolu.dev/docs/api-reference) › [@evolu/sqlite-wasm](https://evolu.dev/docs/api-reference/sqlite-wasm) › [c-api](https://evolu.dev/docs/api-reference/sqlite-wasm/c-api) › sqlite3\_busy\_timeout

```ts
function sqlite3_busy_timeout(
  deps: SqliteWasmDep,
): (db: SqliteDbPtr, ms: number) => SqliteResultCode;
```

Defined in: [packages/sqlite-wasm/src/CApi.ts:1285](https://github.com/evoluhq/evolu/blob/bc4578a260dd15d5bbf94b83765ca05984d194cb/packages/sqlite-wasm/src/CApi.ts#L1285)

Sets a busy handler that sleeps and retries until at least ms milliseconds
have passed, replacing any other busy handler; ms of zero or less removes all
busy handlers.

Wasm type `i(ii)`. Signature `["sqlite3_busy_timeout", "int", "sqlite3*",
"int"]` from SQLite's table.

See https://sqlite.org/c3ref/busy_timeout.html.