Re: [PHP4BETA] Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > First, apologies if this is a problem that's already been addressed. > The php mail-to-news gateway is down and I can't seem to find an > archive of the php4beta mailing list, so I can't search. I did look > in the bug database, and it looks like this bug hasn't been resolved > yet. So. > > The configuration: php4, beta 2 and beta 3. Apache 1.3.6 and 1.3.9. > Linux 2.2.*. All combinations of these display the same error: After > running for a while (say, a week), the "main" httpd process dies. The > error_log file contains the line: > > PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in [no active file] on line 0 > > Now, this only happens on dual-PII+ machines. We have several > machines running the same httpd binary using the same version of > Linux. (They all boot from the same bzImage file, in fact.) All the > single-CPU machines have httpds that are rock solid; the two dual-PII+ > machines fall over in the same way. One of the 2xPII+ machines is > very loaded, the other is very unloaded. > > What can I do to help debug this problem? This basically means that your script took more than the default 30 seconds to run. If you want to change it you can use set_time_limit() function, but it was broken in beta 2 and beta 3. You'd have to use the latest CVS version. -Andrei "Later in this talk, I intend to define the universe and give three examples." -- Larry Wall