GAM stuck at "Waiting for 1 running process to finish before terminating" — anyone else having this issue?

[Andra Ram]

Hi all,

I’m facing a strange problem when using GAM to create or delete multiple users from a CSV.
The command starts fine and processes most users, but then it gets stuck forever with this message:

2025-08-09T10:05:14.661+00:00,0/40,Using 5 processes...
User: eliza33@domain, Deleted
...
2025-08-09T10:05:38.721+00:00,0/40,Waiting for 2 running processes to finish before terminating, wait limit unlimited seconds
2025-08-09T10:06:58.731+00:00,0/40,Waiting for 1 running process to finish before terminating, wait limit unlimited seconds

It never finishes, so I have to stop it manually.
I’m wondering:

• Could this be caused by Google Workspace rate limiting?

• Is there something wrong with my account setup?

• Has anyone else experienced this recently?

Any tips or confirmation from others would be really helpful.

Thanks!

[David Van Aelst]

I have the same, but i think it has to do with number of API calls. 

Mine is running over 240.000 documents.

 

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[Baldeep Rautela]

Hi, 

Got the same issue as mentioned.

Just disconnect the Wi-Fi and reconnect it. it worked for me.

Best,

Baldeep Rautela | Information Technology

[Ian Crew]

This happens when one of the multiple processes that you've triggered with the "multiprocess" option gets stuck/fails for some reason. See the thread at https://groups.google.com/g/google-apps-manager/c/bivKGdgK2wI/m/7_DT4jpLCwAJ for more details and a way to change the "unlimited seconds" bit.

Cheers,

Ian

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