You may see an error like:
PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 0 seconds exceeded
… and wonder how PHP can timeout when no limit is set?
If so, the following information may help you.
This was originally from Lloyd Dewolf’s blog, but the post sadly disappeared from the internet. Since it was helpful to me, I reproduce it below (in part) so the information may live again:
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Lately, I have been working with some big blog exports … In my vanilla development Ubuntu 7.04 environment1, 150 of 1500 posts in, on one with a lot of comments it failed with
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/wp/trunk/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 74
Ok, so I updated max_execution_time = 0 , and 150 posts it fails again, this time with
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 0 seconds exceeded in /var/www/wp/trunk/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 141
Maximum execution time of 0 seconds exceeded?! 0 is supposed to be for unlimited. I have been to infinity and beyond!
Thanks to verysimple.com’s blog I found out that the error is misreported and the real problem is now max_input_time. I don’t know how I would have figured this out if others had not shared it!
Setting this also to zero and the import was successful (though slow). I did not trust that there would not be any duplicates or partial entries, so I cleaned out the content and did it one more time.
- libapache2-mod-php5 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2