Posted by Vanscot on 12/19/07 12:38

I guess that you're including a file that takes longer to execute,
you should check all your includes looking for a while o a connection
that takes too long, never ends or keeps idling until the script hits
the max exec time.

By the way, if you find a way to catch that kind of errors, max exec
time,
post it, since I need a way to die elegant on that.

On Dec 19, 9:19 am, "Richard" <root@localhost> wrote:
> 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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