I am running the latest version of Sitemap Generator on a 8 core AMD processor with 16 gig ram. I am trying to build a sitemap of a wordpress recipe site that has over 13,000 recipes as posts, with 233 pages of links to the posts. The one sitemap I was able to build took me 3 days with a total of 12 hours of run time. In other words every couple of hours I had to restart the creation of the sitemap. I do have the continue building prior checked, also continue when page is shut down. Since I am running on my stand alone server, I am running with Microsoft Edge, and never closing the window.
Why does the generator shut itself down every couple of hours?