I'm not 100% sure - but in fact the max execution time is the time that a single http request will take to clear. I'm basing this on another php application that i have a lot of experience with. In that application there is an install utility. It will routinely time out during a particular data insert if the machine (DB) is slow. I believe one can see exactly this behavior with the CivicSpace install and the location tables (which are large). Put simply in both these cases on slow (DB) machines you will see a timeout at exactly 30 seconds - upping the max execution time will improve this. However, as I said - I may be mistaken. Dan
On Jun 25, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
I'd especially like to know why the maximum php executiomn time does not kick in.
I'm not special enough to follow your link. But, PHP's max execution time is based on the time PHP takes to execute code itself. Waiting around for DB queries or other operations aren't part of the equation.
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