SuiteScript Statement and Instruction Limits

NetSuite enforces execution limits to help prevent scripts from running indefinitely or consuming excessive resources. If a script exceeds these limits, NetSuite throws an error and terminates execution. This error varies depending on which script version is used.

• For SuiteScript 1.0, 2.0, and 2.x scripts, the SSS_INSTRUCTION_COUNT_EXCEEDED error is thrown based on the instruction count metric, which measures the number of low-level operations (instructions) executed by the script engine interpreter. The instruction count may vary depending on how JavaScript constructs are implemented internally. For example, a single JavaScript statement such as Array.sort may correspond to a single operation in user code but multiple instructions within the engine.

• For SuiteScript 2.1 scripts, the SSS_STATEMENT_COUNT_EXCEEDED error is thrown based on statement metric in the script engine interpreter. This metric counts JavaScript-level statements executed, providing a higher-level measurement than the instruction count.

If you encounter these errors, you should examine all of the execution loops in your script to ensure that they contain either a terminating condition or a condition that can be met.

Related Topics

• SuiteScript Overview
• Setting Up Your SuiteScript Environment
• SuiteScript Best Practices
• SuiteScript Debugger
• SuiteCloud Processors
• SuiteScript Monitoring, Auditing, and Logging
• Working with the SuiteScript Records Browser
• SuiteScript Supported Records
• SuiteScript IDs

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