This error tells us that the server was asked to undertake a task that did not complete within the expected timeframe. Therefore, to avoid killing the server's performance for an extended period of time the request was killed in order to free up resources.
Our favourite places to start looking for the cause of this error message are:
- Pages that are driven by Views that have a very large number of rows being output per page.
- Cron initiated tasks that take of manipulating large datasets