LINGO's nonlinear solver uses the ITRSLW, slow progress iteration limit, as a means of terminating the solution process if little or no progress is being made in the objective value. Specifically, if the objective function's value has not improved significantly in n iterations, where n is the value of ITRSLW, the nonlinear solver will terminate the solution process. Increasing this tolerance's value will tend to force the solver to run longer and may be useful in models that have relatively "flat" objective functions around the optimal solution. The default value for ITRSLW is 5 iterations. Refer to the ITRLIM section for a definition of iterations.