php-fpm stops responding

[Reinis Rozitis]

> I figured this would be the first place to start, how do I spawn more
> children for php?

If you want FPM to do it you need to use the dynamic spawning then ( edit 
php-fpm.conf ).

pm = dynamic

and change the following settings to your needs:

pm.max_children
pm.start_servers
pm.min_spare_servers
pm.max_spare_servers


Otherways if you use 'static' process manager just increase pm.max_children 
then.



The error_log should even contain some information if there is a need to 
tune theese params.
Example output:

Jul 12 20:14:20.869487 [WARNING] [pool www] seems busy (you may need to 
increase start_servers, or min/max_spare_servers), spawning 32 children, 
there are 0 idle, and 66 total children
Jul 12 20:14:21.872523 [WARNING] [pool www] server reached max_children 
setting (70), consider raising it



> I would like to track down the offending script as well - how do I use
> the  items that were talked about above?

request_terminate_timeout = 60s
request_slowlog_timeout = 20s
slowlog = /path/slow.log


slow.log then will have backtrace of which script and what part of it takes 
too long (in this case 20 seconds).



You can check http://php-fpm.org/wiki/Configuration_File - while the 
documentation is for the old style XML configuration the variables are still 
the same.

rr