BuddyPress.org

Using WP 3.2.1, BP 1.2.9

Getting this error about once a minute:
PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-classes.php on line 331

The line number varies from 331 to 335
That is in: function get_user_extras, in the IF statement for Fetch the user’s total friend count

If I comment out that IF statement, the same Fatal Error occurs, but the Line Number moves down to the next IF statement.

Tried setting Max Time to 60 seconds – but get same error.
Enabled slow query logging – everything is fine.

The site has ~12k members with an average of 300 members online- so it seems odd that the error only happens once a minute.

Any thoughts?