Problems joining big tables

[Claudio Battaglino]

Hi,
we have in production this MySql database:

innodb_version 5.7.29
protocol_version 10
slave_type_conversions
tls_version TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2
version 5.7.29-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
version_comment (Ubuntu)
version_compile_machine x86_64
version_compile_os Linux

The size of the database has grown unexpectedly.
Now we have a query that joins three tables with almost 70000, 360.000 and 115.000 rows.
If I make the query with LIMIT 100, the query
But If I make the query with limit 1000 the server hangs on.
Is there an upper limit on the length of the tables when you make a join on Mysql?
There are settings of Mysql that should be tuned?

Thank you very much, any help will be appreciated.

Claudio