PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time in Common.php on line 269

[eluser]haraldo[/eluser]
Hi there, i seem to be getting fatal errors occasionally and the apache error log points to the following.

[Tue Dec 09 18:43:20 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in ...system\\codeigniter\\Common.php on line 269, referer: http://...

Line 269 refers to:

Code:

function _exception_handler($severity, $message, $filepath, $line)

I'm not currently using this function although i understand codeigniter uses it to log php errors.

Anyone got a clue why this might be happening?

Thanks.