Gallery

I have experienced this as well, but in my case it took so long that it
exceeded the time limit for scripts and caused the script to terminate.
Here are my system details and a summary of my experience.

Gallery version = 2.2.4 core 1.2.0.6
PHP version = 5.2.0-8+etch11 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch11
Database = mysqli 5.0.32-Debian_7etch5-log, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = ArchiveUpload, Exif, Gd, ImageMagick, SquareThumb
Acceleration = partial/21600, partial/21600
Operating system = Linux week4paug.net 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Thu Apr 24
08:33:59 UTC 2008 i686
Default theme = matrix
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14)
Gecko/20080418 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.14

I was adding files that were already on the server via the add files
module. Of the 43 photos I was trying to add to this album, 2 caused the
script to exceed the maximum time limit and terminate. In every instance
the file was at least created in its target album directory as evidenced by
listing the contents of the directory in a shell, but the album never
recognized the files. Telling gallery to show debugging info revealed the
files eventually throwing 2 errors:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
/var/users/guyforget/gallery/modules/exif/lib/exifer/exif.inc on line 145
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
/var/users/guyforget/gallery/modules/exif/lib/exifer/makers/olympus.inc on
line 81

Disabling the EXIF module allowed me to upload the images with no problem,
and turning it back on afterwards it works fine w/ those 2 files, all data
is parsed and displayed correctly.

The two files can be downloaded here:

http://files.guyforget.week4paug.net/ad280906_1.jpg
http://files.guyforget.week4paug.net/ad280939_1.jpg