Posted by Richard on 12/19/07 12:19

Hello all,
I am looking into issues with time-outs on a website.
These appear to happen in a random way for some users.

This is one example:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in
[snipped_path] auth.php on line 5

auth.php contains:

1 <?php
2 // Login & Session
3 // auth.php
4
5 // start session
6 session_start();

auth.php gets included like this:
1 <?php include("Include/auth.php"); ?>

These timeouts occur sometimes when users from far away (China) use
the website.
The users are known for having an unreliable internet connection at
times.
I have never had these timeouts myself, and can not reproduce any of
them.
The timeouts seem to appear in random places spread across the site,
there does not seem to be a pattern here.

All docs I have here on PHP say that the max execution time is only
the time spent by the PHP interpreter, and does not include the time
sending the data back to the user. So that would suggest there is
something going wrong in the PHP, but I can never find anything
related to that. In this case the error is on or close to lines that
are comments...

My question now is:
Is there any way that a bad internet connection can cause these
time-outs?
Is there something I can do to solve it, or improve it?
I do not use any output buffering in PHP now, would it make a
difference in these cases?

Thanks already,

Richard.

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