cgi timeout ?

[Dave Cragg]

On 27 May 2005, at 18:59, jbv wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Although I make heavy use of Rev cgi on some projects,
> I'm far from being an expert on cgi / Apache / Linux /
> server administration...
>
> In some situations (mainly development & debugging),
> Rev cgi is asked to perform quite complex tasks, and
> sometimes the execution of a script can take up to 8 or
> 9 or 10 seconds (I know : it's prohibitive, but in the
> development process you don't always know in advance
> if your approach will lead to fast execution or not)...
> And I noticed that when a task (script execution) reaches
> the 9 to 11 seconds limit, it doesn't return anything, or
> IOW it seems to just stop & vanish...
> So I was wondering if there was a timeout of some sort
> in the Apache / Linux configuration, and what was the
> best way to deal with it...

The 9-11 seconds sounds suspiciously like Rev's default  
socketTimeoutInterval of 10 seconds. Does it help if you increase the  
value?

Cheers
Dave