On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Earnie Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Sven Decabooter wrote: >> >> Any pointers as to how I could have large chunks of data processed on >> cron in another way? >> > > Not by using hook_cron but by creating a separate script that you execute > within the server cron. The cron process sets a hard 240 seconds to execute > hook_cron implementations.
But remember that you can always call set_time_limit() in your script to adjust the limit, though it just affects PHP's limit, not the webserver's. andrew
