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I am having problems with some of my main (and therefore larger) entries. Some entries will not load at all and others will load but if I try to submit with or without changes it times out with this message:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in (my server info here)..../codeigniter/system/core/Loader.php on line 846

I am a newbie to expression engine and web development in general!

This is the message we got from hosting:

This error occurs when a script is working but not executing properly within the Max Execution time on the server. This is especially odd seeing as the our servers are set to a 90 seconds Max Execution time. Either ExpressionEngine or an add-on is likely increasing it. So, in addition to looking at what in the account is causing the script to take so long to execute, you’ll want to figure out where this variable is being changed, as our changes will be overridden by the account in this case. You might want to use template debugging and/or ask the folks at http://ellislab.com/expressionengine for help tracking down what you are doing that would have EE execute a PHP script for 300 seconds. Because that is far too long time a to process scripts.

I don’t have a clue what to do with this.

Hi. I wasn’t getting that error message, but I was having similar trouble with the control panel freezing. I also posted to thread 235650 (‘Template Editor will close on Submit, not save changes’), because I’m having problems with template and entry edits not saving as well, but only if I take too long before submitting. Just letting you know that changing to ‘Cookies only’ in ‘Security and Session Preferences’ seemed to help. Not sure if this is related to what you’re experiencing, but thought I’d mention it anyway.

My issue is actually happening no matter how long I take to submit. I tried just opening the entry and immediately re-submitting it with no changes and it still times out. I tried what you said but it didn’t help, thanks for the suggestion though!