My site has 1000+ aliases, and bulk updating them causes the server to timeout. After receiving the timeout message after trying to bulk update, pathauto module settings page is unreachable (times out aswell)

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mikeryan’s picture

mikeryan
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Location Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Assigned: Unassigned » mikeryan
Category: bug » feature

Yes, bulk update is inherently slow and can easily exceed your PHP timeout value. To work around it, you can add

ini_set('max_execution_time', 1500);

to your settings.php file. I have it in mind to develop a mechanism to divide the job into chunks executed via a cron hook, but haven't started work on that yet.

As for the settings page getting stuck after a timed-out bulk update, if you can access your database directly execute

DELETE FROM variable WHERE name LIKE 'pathauto_%_bulkupdate'

to clear out the command (I committed a fix just a week or two ago that prevents this from happening).

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greggles
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Location Denver, Colorado, USA
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Even though this issue is older, I'm marking this as a duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/67665 which user Aaron is working on.