scan time limit of 3 hours has been exceeded

Hi @majito, sorry to see you’re having timeouts with scans.

Scan timeouts can be caused by server platform (such as Litespeed that needs to be told not to abort), or other factors such as excessively large files or just a large number of files.

Take a look at the max_execution_time value in your php.ini file. Wordfence’s scan only ever attempts to use half of this value by default but there have been known problems with timeouts when higher values than 60 are set, so it could be worth checking.

For a screenshot of my recommended Performance setting options inside the plugin too – Click Here.

Your WP_MEMORY_LIMIT could be set to 128M or 256M in wp-config.php. WooCommerce, for example, recommend 64M minimum, so if you also have many hits on the site at once especially during a Wordfence scan, a lower limit (like 40M I often see here) could be reached fairly easily. Also check your PHP memory_limit value matches or exceeds this value when making a change.

Let me know what you find out,
Peter.

hi

i did all that and added the bypass for lightspeed + adding lightspeed noport to httaccs

except it didn’t work

• [Aug 22 18:01:52] Scan interrupted. Scanned 85209 files, 25 plugins, 1 themes, 0 posts, 0 comments and 26170 URLs in 3 hours 1 second.
• [Aug 22 18:01:53] Wordfence used 187.09 MB of memory for scan. Server peak memory usage was: 239.09 MB
• [Aug 22 18:01:53] Scan terminated with error: The scan time limit of 3 hours has been exceeded and the scan will be terminated. This limit can be customized on the options page

hi @wfpeter

i’m still waiting on how to solve this issue

High Severity Problems:* Scan Time Limit Exceeded

Alert generated at Sunday 3rd of September 2023 at 02:00:11 AM

i got this everytime i don’t how to solve as i tried and did all what was mentioned is the previous answer you provide.

please help

thanks

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by majito.