Overview
All Automatic Workflow State Transitions are processed together in a single background thread. The default timing is to run the evaluation process every 60 minutes after the previous evaluation process is completed.
This means if it takes the system 10 minutes to complete the evaluation of each transition, then the timing of the transitions will be every 70 minutes (60-minute default + 10 minutes of processing time).
This timing can be modified via a registry key:
Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Motive\MFiles\<version>\Server\MFServer
Value name: StateChangerSleepingIntervalInMinutes
Value type: REG_DWORD (DWORD 32-bit Value)
Value data: 60 (default, minimum 1), minutes
So, if the default timing were changed to 30 minutes in the above example, then the transition evaluations would be completed every 40 minutes (30-minute default + 10 minutes of processing time).
