Re: A question about max_execution_time

On Monday 10 April 2006 11:48, Eric Butera wrote: > Ray, > > Thank you for your response. I did read that in the manual, I promise. > That is why I included the sleep function in my example. Shouldn't the > sleep function count as execution time? One thing I didn't metion earlier, > for the sake of simplicity, is that my script is pulling an XML file. > After I get the XML file I parse through it which also takes time too. The > recordset is about 6 thousand records so it does take a while. Right after I sent that I started wondering if sleep() would be counted in the time or not. I would think it would, but it *could* in the background just run the system sleep, which might not be counted... I don't know that much about the sleep function to tell you. Parsing the XML should cause it to time out if it was longer than 9 seconds though... interesting situation... At the moment I don't have much else for you :( -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099