Real max_execution_time for PHP on linux

Question

According to the documentation:

max_execution_time only affect the execution time of the script itself. 
Any time spent on activity that happens outside the e         


        

Answer 1

This is an old and answered question. But for the sake of helping others, I wanted to point out the request_terminate_timeout php-fpm option. If you're using PHP-FPM, it is most likely what you need.

If set, this option allows you to tell PHP-FPM to kill a request after N seconds, regardless of what PHP does.

See http://php.net/manual/en/install.fpm.configuration.php#request-terminate-timeout for details.