# Action timeout

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/action-timeout/147508>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 2, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/action-timeout/147508 "2008-09-02T16:17:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![flo\_w](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@flo\_w](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flo_w)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/action-timeout/147508/1 "2008-09-02T16:17:49Z")

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hi everyone!

although i think i have a fairly common problem - i could not find a  
solution via google right away.

basically i have an action sending out emails that has to run quite  
long while being accessed throught a browser. about 30 minutes is  
normal in this case.

right now i get a timeout error after 10 minutes and i don’t know  
which setting this is coming from.

this is what i have in my production.log:

ActiveRecord::Transactions::TransactionError (Transaction aborted):  
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active\_record/  
transactions.rb:76:in `transaction' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in`call’  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in `sysread' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in`rbuf\_fill’  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in`timeout’  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:132:in `rbuf_fill' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in`readuntil’  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in `readline' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:664:in`recv\_response’  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:396:in `do_start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:686:in`critical’  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:396:in `do_start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:378:in`start’  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:316:in `start' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.0.2/lib/action_mailer/ base.rb:586:in`perform\_delivery\_smtp’

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where can i set this “max\_exec\_time” ??

thanks in advance and have a nice day  
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