Cron doesn't complete with FastCGI [#307855]

This may be a local configuration issue, but it perhaps may be a problem with FeedAPI. For the most part, I didn't have any cron issues until I installed FeedAPI. After unsuccessful changes in PHP memory and execution/input time, I found what worked best was switching the PHP API from FastCGI to CGI.

Anyone else seeing this problem or know what the solution may be. I'm also using eAccelerator also, but in this case I don't think it is the issue.

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Comment #1

Aron Novak

Hungarian

Hungary, Budapest

CreditAttribution: Aron Novak commented 15 September 2008 at 07:31

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Is there any error message or only the cron.php runs too long?
Does the execution of cron.php make some feeds refreshed?
What's the value of max_execution_time php variable? You can check this out at admin/reports/status/php .

Comment #2

BryanSD CreditAttribution: BryanSD commented 20 September 2008 at 22:34

I'm not really getting any other errors that would be related to this issue, unless this is one:

unserialize() [<a href='function.unserialize'>function.unserialize</a>]: Node no longer exists in ../sites/all/modules/feedapi/parser_common_syndication/parser_common_syndication.module on line 116. .

I've played with both the max_execution_time and max_input_time. Increasing the max_input_time did appear to help, especially when Drupal's available updates module was running. However, there still is significant performance issues when funning fastcgi with PHP 5.2.6.

The more I look into this, the more I'm thinking this may be a system problem (I'm on a VPS) and not necessarily a Drupal problem. In doing an internet search there were significant performance issues being reported with fastcgi and PHP 5.2.4. Perhaps, the performance and cron.php issues I'm seeing is an Apache 2, fastcgi, and/or PHP 5.2.x issue. It just happened that feedapi was the module to push my site over the edge?

I suggest leaving this issue open for a few days to see if anyone else is seeing issues with cron.php and feedapi running under fastcgi. If no one follows...lets close this ticket.