Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded

[jamiebah]

I get the following error message when trying to rebuild the poller cache,
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /usr/local/www/data-dist/cacti/include/config_settings.php on line 242
I can't find where this timeout value is set. I need to increase it so that my poller cache will rebuild...

Is this something in the config for Cacti or a default for PHP, I searched the Cacti settings files and also the ini file for php, but I cannot find it anywhere.

(I tried to compile cactid figuring that this would fix the problem, but it won't compile, complains about not finding the snmp libs. Tried the compile options as stated in the forums here for FreeBSD and still no go)

FreeBSD 4.9, Cacti 0.8.4a, PHP 4.3.1

Can anyone help?

[bulek]

It is setting called "maximum_execution_time" in php.ini. By default it is set to 30... you need to increase it to some longer time like 300.

- bulek

[jamiebah]

Thanks!!

[rewt]

I thought that was the problem as well till I found that this script: include/adodb/adodb-time.inc.php has tried to disable the time limit with the set_time_limit(0) function.
I changed that to set_time_limit(300) as well. It works fine now.

I only done this as a last resort.

[bulek]

Hmm... set_time_limit(0) means no time restriction for script execution. But if it works for you then why not

- bulek