diff --git a/apps/nocapd/src/classes/Worker.js b/apps/nocapd/src/classes/Worker.js
index f5cd3c75..ee9b722d 100644
--- a/apps/nocapd/src/classes/Worker.js
+++ b/apps/nocapd/src/classes/Worker.js
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ import nocapAdapters from "@nostrwatch/nocap-every-adapter-default"
 
 import { relayHostnameDedup } from '../hostnames.js';
 
+const TIMEOUT = 2*60*1000
+
 let errors = 0
 
 export class NWWorker {
@@ -49,13 +51,14 @@ export class NWWorker {
       timeout: this.timeout,
       checked_by: this.pubkey
     }
-  
+
     this.jobOpts = {
       attempts: 1,
-      timeout: 1000*30,
-      removeOnComplete: true,
+      removeOnComplete: {
+        age: timestring(this.config.nocapd.checks.options.expires, 's')
+      },
       removeOnFail: {
-        age: timestring('2m', 's')
+        age: timestring('10m', 's')
       }
     }
   
@@ -133,10 +136,12 @@ export class NWWorker {
     const failure = (err) => { this.log.err(`Could not run ${this.pubkey} check for ${job.data.relay}: ${err.message}`) }  
     let result = {}
     try {
+      const timeout = this.setTimeout( () => { throw new Error(`Job Timedout: ${job.id} after ${TIMEOUT/1000}s`), TIMEOUT })
       const { relay:url } = job.data 
       const nocap = new Nocap(url, {...this.nocapOpts, logLevel: 'debug'})
       await nocap.useAdapters([...Object.values(nocapAdapters)])
       result = await nocap.check(this.opts.checks.enabled).catch(failure)
+      clearTimeout(timeout)
       return { result } 
     } 
     catch(err) {
diff --git a/internal/seed/src/index.js b/internal/seed/src/index.js
index 4cd97505..b3e8443e 100644
--- a/internal/seed/src/index.js
+++ b/internal/seed/src/index.js
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import Logger from "@nostrwatch/logger"
 import { fetch } from "cross-fetch"
 import config from "./config.js"
 
+let cache
+
 const DEFAULT_RELAYS = [ "wss://relay.nostr.watch", "wss://history.nostr.watch", "wss://relaypag.es" ]
 
 const STATIC_SEED_FILE = new URL('seed.yaml', import.meta.url);
@@ -99,12 +101,15 @@ export const relaysFromCache = async (opts) => {
   const { openDb, DbWrapper, initializeDb } = await import("@nostrwatch/nwcache")
 
   let result 
-  let cache
+  cache
   
   try {
-    let lmdb = openDb(cacheOpts.path, { maxDbs: 10 })
-    cache = new DbWrapper(lmdb)
-    cache = initializeDb(cache)
+    let lmdb
+    if(!cache) {
+      lmdb = openDb(cacheOpts.path, { maxDbs: 10 })
+      cache = new DbWrapper(lmdb)
+      cache = initializeDb(cache)
+    } 
 
     if(cacheOpts?.onlineOnly) {
       result = await cache.relay.get.online('url')
@@ -114,15 +119,11 @@ export const relaysFromCache = async (opts) => {
     }
   
     result = result.map( relay => relay.url )
-  
-    cache.$.close()
   }
   catch(e){
     logger.err(e)
   }
 
-  cache = null
-
   return [ result, Date.now() ]
 }