Fast CGI (spawn-fcgi / php-cgi) crashes/dies/hangs

[Grzegorz Nosek]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:33:05AM -0800, Michael Shadle wrote:
> well spawn-fcgi not working properly could be considered critical.
> 
> have you tried the latest stable spawn-fcgi, and then the latest beta?

It won't work anyway.

Repeat after me.

spawn-fcgi is not a process manager. spawn-fcgi is not a process manager.
spawn-fcgi is not a process manager. spawn-fcgi is not a process manager.
spawn-fcgi is not a process manager. spawn-fcgi is not a process manager.
spawn-fcgi is not a process manager. spawn-fcgi is not a process manager.
spawn-fcgi is not a process manager. spawn-fcgi is not a process manager.

No version of spawn-fcgi will help you (or the OP) with crashing PHP
processes. Use a process manager, like supervisord, god, runit, upstart,
sysvinit, daemontools or whatever suits you, that can actually restart a
crashed PHP.

(shameless plug: consider supervisord with ngx_supervisord, announced
here recently)

Best regards,
 Grzegorz Nosek