Title: Big error.log file
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Big error.log file

 *  Resolved [simbian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simbian/)
 * (@simbian)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-errorlog-file/)
 * Hello, this morning i found the error.log file generated by the server hosting
   which had size of over 15gb…
 * I deleted it but after a while it was generated again and increasing forever,
   i opened it and found that:
 * [30-May-2016 08:48:34 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘InvalidArgumentException’
   with message ‘wfWAFAttackDataStorageFileEngine::unpackMicrotime $binary expected
   to be string with length of 8, received string of length 0’ in /home/digitalk/
   public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/vendor/wordfence/wf-waf/src/lib/storage/
   file.php:695
    Stack trace: #0 /home/digitalk/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/
   vendor/wordfence/wf-waf/src/lib/storage/file.php(210): wfWAFAttackDataStorageFileEngine::
   unpackMicrotime(”) #1 [internal function]: wfWAFStorageFile->_getAttackDataRowsNewerThan(
   Resource id #20, 45770, 330) #2 /home/digitalk/public_html/wp-content/plugins/
   wordfence/vendor/wordfence/wf-waf/src/lib/storage/file.php(961): call_user_func(
   Array, Resource id #20, 45770, 330) #3 /home/digitalk/public_html/wp-content/
   plugins/wordfence/vendor/wordfence/wf-waf/src/lib/storage/file.php(195): wfWAFAttackDataStorageFileEngine-
   >scanRowsReverse(Array) #4 /home/digitalk/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/
   lib/wordfenceClass.php(5014): wfWAFStorageFile->ge in /home/digitalk/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/wordfence/vendor/wordfence/wf-waf/src/lib/storage/file.php
   on line 695
 * By now i disabled the plugin waiting for a solution.
    THanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Thread Starter [simbian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simbian/)
 * (@simbian)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-errorlog-file/#post-7428381)
 * sorry i found the the cause is by another plugin, i made mistake becase in the
   error.log file i also found the references to Wordfence plugin.

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