FastCGI and PHP

[Phillip B Oldham]

After the recent thread on php-fastcgi and memory leaks, I've realised 
that I'm a little unsure as to exactly how nginx and php-fastcgi 
communicate with one another. I'm wondering whether anyone could spare 
the time for clarification?

I understand that when started (in my case using spawn-fastcgi from the 
lighttpd project) php-fastcgi creates a master process and a number of 
child processes. Nginx then passes requests through to php-fastcgi, 
which processes the request and returns a response.

What I'm unsure on is whether nginx is passing the request directly to 
one of the child processes or the master process which then delegates.

I'm also unsure as to how nginx passes through the fastcgi params we 
configure.

The reason I ask is that I have some useful components written in Eiffel 
which I'd like to make available via a webserver. I've found a small 
fastcgi server written in Eiffel, which I'd like to expand on to 
replicate the kind of through-put the php-fastcgi instance I'm running 
allows.

Thanks.
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*Phillip B Oldham*
The Activity People
phill at theactivitypeople.co.uk <mailto:phill at theactivitypeople.co.uk>

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