Title: Database Sweep Problem
Last modified: May 5, 2020

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# Database Sweep Problem

 *  [idealynx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idealynx/)
 * (@idealynx)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-sweep-problem/)
 * I tried to do a database sweep on a WordPress website with 1,399 Posts and 9,780
   Post Meta. Under POST SWEEP the plugin just kept saying [Sweeping] for more than
   5 minutes. I eventually reloaded the page thinking the plugin had crashed.
 * It looks like it may have worked anyway because everything under Post Sweep, 
   Comment Sweep, User Sweep, Term Sweep, and Option Sweep now has a count of 0.
 * BTW, I’m running this on a Synology NAS. The default-socket-timeout is currently
   set to 60 and the hard_timeout is set to 2.
 * Thanks!
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [idealynx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idealynx/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-sweep-problem/#post-12788345)
 * It might be your PHP timeout which is 30s by default.
 *  Thread Starter [idealynx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idealynx/)
 * (@idealynx)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-sweep-problem/#post-12790206)
 * Thanks, Lester. I really appreciate your prompt response and the great plugin
   you designed. What do you recommend I set the default PHP timeout to?
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-sweep-problem/#post-12796185)
 * I recommend for 5 minutes.

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 * Last reply from: [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-sweep-problem/#post-12796185)
 * Status: not resolved