Hi, I am trying to figure out why a script that is set to time out after 30 seconds will run indefinitely. For example, set_time_limit(30); echo ini_get('max_execution_time'), "<hr />"; echo date("H:i:s"), "<hr />"; for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) { sleep(10); echo date("H:i:s"),"<hr />"; flush(); } echo "Done!"; result: 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13:54:09 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14:10:50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Done! As you can see, this script ran for over 14 minutes. I have read that max_execution_time is bound to CPU time, and I am not sure how this translates into being able to effectively use this parameter. Comments / insight extremely appreciated. Michael -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php