By Professor on

Hi everyone.
I'm new to administering and am currently in the process of building a website for my med school alumni..
I've encountered a couple problems in my testing process.
I'm using a xampp setup on win 7.

First is that some times my website just shows a blank page or an error saying "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in G:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\common.inc on line 552". I don't know how to make this timeout longer.

Second, in the status report there is an error about "image_fupload" requiring me to download "swfupload"'s latest release. But it remains there even after i've downoloaded and followed instructions.

I also wanted to ask, how much does it affect the installations if too many extensions are enabled?

Thanks in anticipation.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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groenm commented

As for your first question, the maximum execution time is set by php. You have to edit your php.ini file to increase the timer. However, the question is whether you want to do that. If a page takes more than 60 seconds to be generated, I wonder how many people are going to view this page. So you probably want to figure out why it takes so long to generate the page? Maybe their is an enormous amount of nodes in the database, and the page shows a view with a very complex query?

Your question about image_fupload relates to the contributed module Image FUpload. Probably, it is a better idea to find an answer in the issue queue of the module itself: http://drupal.org/project/issues/image_fupload_gallery_assist?status=All...

Mark

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Professor commented

Thank you for the reply.
I really don't know why its behaving this way. I haven't added any content yet and it appears in almost all the administration pages.

Is it possible that i have too many extensions installed?

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groenm commented

If it happens in the administration pages, it is probably not related to the content itself. Installing a lot of extensions can effect Drupal. It also depends on the resources available to Drupal. Perhaps you should check how much memory is consumed in the server and how much is available.

Mark

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pixelzoo commented

I started working on drupal 6 and I get this error a lot. I use wampserver too and when installing modules locally (even one at a time) I get errors - sometimes its random (not on the same module / intermittent). I am just persistance and keep trying and eventually get it working But it is annoying (I close all my skype / add ons, install in offline mode / IE / run crons re-import database, clear cache).

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groenm commented

If you have shell access, I suggest you log into the shell and run top to check if you are running low on memory, or if your CPU might be hogged. This type of errors are often caused by a shortage of resources in your server.

Mark