diff --git a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_tinyfs.py b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_tinyfs.py
index d881d0a777..95af79e3e9 100644
--- a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_tinyfs.py
+++ b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_tinyfs.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from tinygrad.helpers import DEBUG, getenv
 from tinygrad import Tensor
 
 TINYFS_ENDPOINT = getenv("TINYFS_ENDPOINT", "localhost:6767")
+TINYFS_TIMEOUT = getenv("TINYFS_TIMEOUT", 60)
 
 class TinyFSDevice(Compiled):
   def __init__(self, device:str):
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ class TinyFSDevice(Compiled):
 
     self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
     self.sock.connect((TINYFS_ENDPOINT.rsplit(":", 1)[0], int(TINYFS_ENDPOINT.rsplit(":", 1)[1])))
-    self.sock.settimeout(10)
+    self.sock.settimeout(TINYFS_TIMEOUT)
     self.sfile = self.sock.makefile("rwb")
 
     # fetch node info
@@ -113,9 +114,9 @@ class TinyFSAllocator(Allocator[TinyFSDevice]):
 
         writer.write(f"CHUNK_OUT {size}\r\n".encode())
         writer.write(src.hash_buf[i*16:(i+1)*16])
-        await asyncio.wait_for(writer.drain(), timeout=10)
+        await asyncio.wait_for(writer.drain(), timeout=TINYFS_TIMEOUT)
 
-        chunk = await asyncio.wait_for(reader.readexactly(size), timeout=10)
+        chunk = await asyncio.wait_for(reader.readexactly(size), timeout=TINYFS_TIMEOUT)
 
         view = dest[ptr:ptr+len(chunk)]
         view[:] = chunk