On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Christopher Ecklesdafer <christopher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an issue with mod_fcgid spawning new php processes and after some > time it looses control over php-cgi. I see many php-cgi processes running > for long time. When I check parent process ID I see it is init owning them. > They aren’t zombies though. It means httpd lost control over these > processes. For time being number of process grows to the point my server > goes out of memory. Stopping and starting httpd doesn’t kill them. Only way > to stop php-cgi processes is to send the kill signal directly to the > process. > > Here are my wrapper settings: > > #!/bin/sh > # Do not change this file > PHPRC=/etc/ > export PHPRC > export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=5000 > export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=0 > exec /usr/bin/php-cgi > > Here is our mod_fcgid config settings: > > PHP_Fix_Pathinfo_Enable 1 > FcgidProcessTableFile /tmp/fcgidshm_aux7 > FcgidIPCDir /tmp/.fcgidsock_aux7 > FcgidMinProcessesPerClass 0 > FcgidMaxProcessesPerClass 70 > FcgidMaxProcesses 8000 > FcgidMaxRequestLen 1073741824 > FcgidMaxRequestInMem 20971520 > FcgidIdleTimeout 30 > FcgidIdleScanInterval 60 > FcgidBusyTimeout 300 > FcgidBusyScanInterval 120 > FcgidErrorScanInterval 20 > FcgidZombieScanInterval 3 > FcgidProcessLifeTime 60 > FcgidIOTimeout 300 > > > I see this problem on mod_fcgid 2.3.6 with Apache 2.2.3 distributed by > Cloudlinux repository for CentoOS 5 as well as for most recent version of > mod_fcgid 2.3.7 with Apache httpd 2.2.15 for Cent OS 6.2. > > Only solution I have so far is script like one shown here: > http://www.sonassi.com/knowledge-base/abandoned-php-fcgi-process-clean-up/ > > Screenshot showing example of a php-cgi processes that have lost parent > control. > http://quick-markup.com/p/500f1d0461f16 > > **I have cronjob doing httpd graceful restart each hour. The issue here may > be related to that cronjob. Although I haven’t observed it is caused by > graceful restart. Usually it takes couple of days when I see php-cgi > processes being old. mod_fcgid process management hosed after graceful restart??? https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48949 > > Is there anything else I should check in my system to eliminate this issue? > > -- -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx