Perhaps your hook has an exit() in it (or aborts for some other reason?) and therefore cron does not have a chance to clear the semaphore?<br><br>Elysia cron will probably make the problem go away, by working around it.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:26 PM, nan wich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nan_wich@bellsouth.net">nan_wich@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Nope, it's not Update. I can run cron every minute and this happens. And I don't think I even have Update enabled on that site.<br> </div><div class="im">
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Dhananjay Gandhi <<a href="mailto:dhananjay.gandhi@gmail.com" target="_blank">dhananjay.gandhi@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:development@drupal.org" target="_blank">development@drupal.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, September 8, 2010 12:21:34 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [development] Cron run exceeded the time limit and was aborted.<br></font><div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br>hey<br><br>cron takes time in cheching updates of ur drupal version and its modules.<br>If u deactivate the update module then it will not take time.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Earnie Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">nan wich wrote:<br>> I have a function that runs a few updates and displays a list of what it did. In<br>
> order to get caught up from a long period of neglect, I decided to add it into<br>> the hook_cron. Every time I invoke cron, I get "Cron run exceeded the time limit<br>> and was aborted" yet it completes in far less than 30 seconds. Any ideas how my<br>
> code could be inadvertantly triggering this?<br>><br>> Nancy<br>> Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.<br><br>Are you sure it is your code? Try using Elysia Cron to schedule the<br>
hook_cron of different modules. The cron API gives 240 seconds for all<br>hook_cron to execute, if all the modules exceed the 240 seconds then<br>you'll see the exceeded time limit message.<br><font color="#888888"><br>
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