bowser timing out?

[drifter]

I am writing some really big jobs for cron that will sometimes take hours to run. I test them in a browser not as cron.

I do not want a lot of out put because I need to log the result or get them emailed to me. (who needs 1,000,000 sucessfull statements.)

Anyway, I have notice if I do not print much data, the browsers seem to just stop responding in a few minutes. IE and Mozilla. I do have a set_time_out(0);

If I echo enough data to make it flush by itself, or I occasionally do an ob_flush();flush(); - the script will run for hours.

So is this a browser related issue? will I not have these problems as cron? Is this s php.ini setting of some type?

[roopurt18]

Even though you set the time out to 0, I believe that has no bearing on database interactions.  Do you have access to a CLI so you can test your cron jobs that way?  It will make your life a little easier.

[linuxdream]

Check your logs for warning about set_time_out. If safe_mode is on, then set_time_out doesn't work and it only tell you this in the logs not in the browser. I've had this happen and it was frustrating as heck. Might help.