Question

I’m using php-fpm and have set a terminate_timeout=3 to stop any running scripts taking longer than 3 seconds, which works great.

However, occasionally, I will have a php script that NEEDS to run a bit longer, for instance, it’s accessing a 3rd party billing API that takes some time to return.

Is there any way that script can override the default timeout of php-fpm and ask for a little longer amount of time?

Answer 1

The options declared in php-fpm.conf are not reachable from ini_set() (along with the options defined for the fpm pool). However,

• create another pool

create two pools with different options (note the two different ports)
(usually in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/)

[pool1]
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
request_terminate_timeout = 0
...

[pool2]
listen = 127.0.0.1:9001
request_terminate_timeout = 10s
...

• You could also use the set_time_limit function (from the core, it doesn’t work in PHP safe-mode)
  (I’m guessing (didn’t try) the php-fpm request_terminate_timeout option should probably be removed in this case if its value < set_time_limit)