What issue or error are you experiencing? After running a site for a period of time, it takes a while to respond. I do have Debug enabled as I am developing and need to be able to test/walkthrough code. Oddly, when this happens, if I switch PHP versions, then switch back, the site seems responsive f…

Hey @rbaugh ! Is this happening for a specific site you’re working on? Or all sites? For example, if you spin up a new, blank Local site and start working on that does the same thing happen? You may have seen our performance help guide before but just in case I’ll share it here: Troubleshoot: Perfo…

Were you using Xdebug @rbaugh ? We also have another recent bug report here related to Xdebug crashes that could be related if so. [image] Xdebug 3.3.0 crashes Bugs Bug Summary Local bundles xdebug 3.3.0 for PHP 8.3.x, which sometimes crashes. 3.1.1 and 3.3.2 f…

It happens with multiple sites I am developing with. Some are single instance sites and a couple are multisite. I haven’t tried a fresh install as I haven’t had time to try debugging and working on a fresh site. I do try and limit the sites I have started and running in Local to just one at a time.…

Is this something that just started recently @rbaugh as in after you update to Local v9.2.8 or has it been going on longer back? Could you share a full Local Log here? Retrieving Local’s Log File

@Nick-B It has been going on for a while. I had just recently upgraded to test and see if anything was different. I’ll see if I can get some logs over today

local-logs.zip (1.5 MB) Here are my log files

@rbaugh I’m not really seeing anything in the logs that stands out but I’ll run by the Devs as well It sounds like however there are some things that you could try to test at some point: Testing a new, blank site to see if it runs into the same issues, which might help indicate if it’s a site-sp…

@Nick-B Quite often I am doing dev work all day long and when I get done for the day, I just get up and leave my laptop. Being remote, I just let things stay up in my own office. I’ll have to try shutting down PHPStorm when I notice the site is slow to see if anything changes there. I feel like I h…

Thanks for all of the insight @rbaugh ! Quite often I am doing dev work all day long and when I get done for the day, I just get up and leave my laptop. Being remote, I just let things stay up in my own office. I can understand getting into this habit (I too work remotely), but it might be benefi…

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Nick-B September 11, 2025, 2:00pm 3

Were you using Xdebug @rbaugh? We also have another recent bug report here related to Xdebug crashes that could be related if so.

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