There is a bug in PHP that causes the max_execution_time to be reached too early (sometimes instantly) on Apple Silicon. This affects both php-fpm and php -S on macOS 14 (Sonoma).
I have encountered this issue with macOS 14.5 on an M3 pro chip, and other users have reported it with different configurations.
Workaround
The workaround is to set the max_execution_time to a very high value in your php.ini file.
max_execution_time = 99999999Setting it to 0 or -1, despite working in CLI, does not help.
Long-term solution
At the time of writing, a fix has been merged for 8.2 and 8.3, but not released yet.
When it is released, upgrading should solve the issue. For php 8.2, it should be 8.2.20 or 8.2.21.
It is unclear if it will be backported to 8.1 as well.
For more information, see:
Update
The PHP 8.1 homebrew shivammathur formula has been patched to include the fix, since it won’t be merged upstream in php itself.