On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Zaccone, Warren <wzaccone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > yes. so I am I. The default setting is 30 seconds however pstack shows all 256 children running this script indefinitely - until I stop and restart httpd. > > This statement in the php doc is leading me to believe the Timeout directive will override: > > " Your web server can have other timeout configurations that may also interrupt PHP execution. Apache has a Timeout directive and IIS has a CGI timeout function. Both default to 300 seconds. See your web server documentation for specific details. " FWIW, if you were running PHP as CGI, and not trickling back some input in that loop, Apache's CGI module would give up based on the Timeout. But since you run mod_php, nobody but PHP is watching the clock. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx