Re: idle-timeout & spawn time of process

idle-timeout is how long apache will wait for a FastCGI process to "wake up". 
You're looking to adjust the parameters under the Dynamic processing (read the 
manual for tuning those options).

If you want to pre-fork, then set a static FastCGI server for php, then there's 
no wait time, it will always be running.  If PHP is dying, check for core files 
or error messages in the logs.

David.

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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ruben van der Zwan wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm running FastCgi for quite some time now, I use it for PHP.
> It seems to be impossible to make FastCgi startup faster, the first time it
> has to spawn a PHP process. This takes around 1 sec.
> To avoid making the not so busy sites look slow, I wanted to increase the
> lifetime of the PHP processes. I thought I could achieve this by setting the
> idle-timeout directive of FastCgiConfig to a higher number, eg. 900.
> I looks like the processes stay alive longer. But when I, after 15 minutes
> (with the processes still running) make a request, it works only once, after
> which the PHP processes still die.
>
> Can somebody explain to me what the idle-timeout directive is supposed to
> do, or point me to a solution for what I'm trying to accomplish? The best
> thing would still be to minimize the startup time of the PHP script. On the
> CLI it starts instantly...
>
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ruben van der Zwan
>
> -------------------------
>
> Relative part of httpd.conf:
>
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> Action application/x-httpd-php /fcgi-bin/php.sh
>
> <Location /fcgi-bin/>
>        SetHandler fastcgi-script
>        Options +ExecCGI
> </Location>
>
> FastCgiWrapper /usr/local/sbin/suexec
> FastCgiConfig -init-start-delay 0 -appConnTimeout 2 -startDelay 1
> -restart-delay 0 -idle-timeout 900
> FastCgiConfig -maxClassProcesses 5 -maxProcesses 50
> FastCgiConfig -singleThreshold 100 -killInterval 900
> FastCgiConfig -pass-header Authorization
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>    ServerAdmin admin-WI0L6dQK/VpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
>    DocumentRoot /usr/www/www.hostname.com/public_html
>    ServerName www.hostname.com
>    SuexecUserGroup user user
>    ScriptAlias /fcgi-bin/ /usr/www/www.hostname.com/etc/
> </VirtualHost>
>
> -------------------------
>
> The php.sh looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> PHPRC="/usr/www/www.hostname.com/etc"
> export PHPRC
> PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=1
> export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
> exec /usr/local/bin/php
>
> -------------------------
>
> System: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6
> Apache 2.0.54
> PHP 5.0.5
> Mod_fastcgi 2.4.2
>
>

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