[Fwd: [lighttpd-announce] spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16 prerelease]

[Phillip B Oldham]

YMMV, but I had a *lot* of trouble using spawn-fcgi + php. Processes 
would stop responding to requests after a while for no reason. Turns out 
PHP has a hard limit on the number of requests it can take before 
re-spawning a child and spawn-fcgi didn't honor that limit, passing 
requests to quitting children.

I posted this information to the list and forums but was ignored, which 
expidited the move to nginx. I'm now running php-cgi with the -b switch 
on a number of production servers without issue (php-fpm wouldn't 
compile for me at the time).

Cliff Wells wrote:
> For those people who, for various reasons, can't or don't want to
> compile PHP with php-fpm (or for anyone who needs to spawn FCGI
> processes in general), spawn-fcgi has been split out of Lighttpd into
> its own project (message below).
>
> Regards,
> Cliff
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Stefan Bühler <lighttpd at stbuehler.de>
> To: lighttpd-announce at lists.lighttpd.net
> Subject: [lighttpd-announce] spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16 prerelease
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:42:13 +0100
>
> Prerelease of spawn-fcgi 1.6.0 (rc1-r16)
>
> *spawn-fcgi extracted into own project*
>
> There are several versions of spawn-fcgi (one in lighttpd 1.4.x, one in 1.5.x 
> and one in cherokee), which makes packaging very hard (e.g.: debian packages 
> spawn-fcgi from lighty as "spawn-fcgi.lighttpd" - which makes using it more 
> complicated as your scripts are probably using "spawn-fcgi"...).
> Additionally, keeping the sources and bug fixes synchronized is just too much 
> work (ok, the one in cherokee isn't our problem :) ).
> Therefore we decided to split spawn-fcgi into a new project which will start 
> with version 1.6.0 (and will be independent of lighttpd releases).
>
> We plan to remove spawn-fcgi from lighttpd-1.4.x after the release of 
> lighttpd-1.4.22.
>
> You can find the new project at 
> http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/wiki
>
> In case you would like to test a spawn-fcgi version with more features 
> (options for chown the socket), see here: 
> http://cgit.stbuehler.de/gitosis/spawn-fcgi/about/ (needs glib)
>
>
> *Important changes*
>
> - Removed limits for  @-C phpchildren@ option, which now justs sets 
> @PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN@ if @phpchildren >= 0@ (default: ommited); php's default 
> is @PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN = 0@, which means that the master process is the worker 
> process. (not the same as @PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN = 1@, which results in one 
> master watching its child). Instead of using the @-C@ option you can now just 
> set the environment var before invoking spawn-fcgi.
> - Modified the log messages format
>
> *Downloads*
>
> - http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.tar.gz
>   MD5: ff19abc92b74fd8c7099291aff0caa95
>   SHA1: 883ccaeb9be21e0eda2f03b37e43795abf403845
> - http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.tar.bz2
>   MD5: 19099d04b133222329f1f6eed12b6398
>   SHA1: f6fb10a5c71a3d7b23889be614c5ecb232ce4563
> - SHA1 checksums: 
> http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.sha1sum
> - MD5 checksums: 
> http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.md5sum
>
> *Changes*
>
> - Separated spawn-fcgi from lighttpd
> - Remove limits für php children; per default the PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN var is not 
> changed (php defaults to no children, one worker)
> - Modified the log messages format (more details on errors, no source line)
> - Only try to connect to unix socket (not tcp) before spawning (fixes again 
> #1575)
> - Only disconnect from terminal in fork mode (keep stderr/stdout open in 
> nofork mode)
> - Allow numerical user and group ids for -u/-g (fixes #1141)
> - Ignore pid-file option in no-fork mode (instead of producing empty file)
> - Fix error handling for unix-socket-connect test
>
>
>
>
>   

-- 

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

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