Wkhtmltopdf: How to set timeout?

Created on 15 Nov 2015  路  3Comments  路  Source: wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf

I've just found wkhtmltopdf on my linux machine was working for the last 28 minutes eating 99% of CPU and effectively killing the server. Can I set some kind of timeout so it it can't create a PDF within 30 seconds it dies?

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Is something like this viable ?

xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" \
    timeout --preserve-status 40 -k 60 \
    wkhtmltopdf http://www.qwamci.com/ /tmp/qwam.pdf
picture optyler on 20 May 2019
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You'd have to do that outside of wkhtmltopdf.

bgadoury picture bgadoury on 13 Jan 2016
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Closing as the answer was provided.

Tomsgu picture Tomsgu on 23 Aug 2018

Is something like this viable ?

xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" \
    timeout --preserve-status 40 -k 60 \
    wkhtmltopdf http://www.qwamci.com/ /tmp/qwam.pdf
optyler picture optyler on 20 May 2019
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