Re: set_time_limit behavior

HI Jay, Thanks for the reply. No, we are not in safe mode. That was one of the first things I looked at. It's quite a confusing issue. I certainly have had PHP time out on me before, and have juggled max_execution_time to solve this. But with it just running indefinitely regardless of INI values or run time setting... well its a little disturbing! Thanks, Michael Jay Blanchard wrote:

[snip] I am trying to figure out why a script that is set to time out after 30 seconds will run indefinitely. For example, .... As you can see, this script ran for over 14 minutes. I have read that max_execution_time is bound to CPU time, and I am not sure how this translates into being able to effectively use this parameter. Comments / insight extremely appreciated. [/snip] Are you running PHP in safe mode? If so set_time_limit() has no effect.