Smart Assertions with large responses

We have found that large response messages (e.g., 85000 lines) can cause the Smart Assertion to engage up for an unacceptable time during which the application becomes locked and unresponsive (can be over an hour). The only way to regain control when interacting with the ReadyAPI application is to kill the program process and restart the program.

1. Is there a way to set a time-out for a Smart Assertion?
2. Will this happen using testrunner?

I feel we have just gotten lucky this hasn't come up using testrunner via Jenkins, but it feels like we're playing minesweeper and the data will be hit eventually. 

Thanks.