From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2005-01-09T10:14:46+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby from command line timing out?

Is it safe to guess, based on the name of the script, that it spiders 
web pages? If that's the case, Timeout::Error s are going to happen 
quite frequently as a particular web page loads too slowly.

On Jan 8, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Jason N.Perkins wrote:

> I'm running a script from the command line that's going to take a 
> couple of hours to complete. Between 15 and 20 minutes into its run, 
> the script throws an execution expired (Timeout::Error). Is there an 
> environment variable that I should be looking at modifying? The error 
> message in its entirety is:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:42:in `new': execution expired 
> (Timeout::Error)
>         from ./spider.rb:6334:in `join'
>         from ./spider.rb:6334
>         from ./spider.rb:6334:in `each'
>         from ./spider.rb:6334
>
>
>
> --
> Jason N Perkins
> <http://sneer.org/>
>
>
>

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/