I have a problem that seems to occur only on an occasional basis but with a number of different scripts and modules, but it basically characterised by one thing. The script will return an error such as

"Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 3 seconds exceeded in /includes/third_party/Snoopy.class.inc on line 702"

.. but, the max_execution_time in the php ini file is set to 10000 which is confirmed when looking at the output from phpinfo()

There are no calls to set_time_limit anywhere in the script and yet, the max execution time still seems to be being ignored.

The real frustration though, is that re-running this script can often result in the error not occuring at all. 

Configure Line :

'./configure' '--with-apache=../apache_1.3.20' '--enable-track-vars' '--without-mysql' '--with-oci8=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7' '--enable-sigchild'