nginx makes mysqld die all the time

Steve Wilson lists-nginx at swsystem.co.uk
Wed Aug 19 08:57:55 UTC 2015


It looks like your machine is running out of memory, again this is 
something I think I've dealt with in php-fpm by configuring it to 
recycle the child processes so they don't start consuming too much 
memory.

Here's my fpm pool config file:

[www]
user = www-data
group = www-data
listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
listen.mode = 0660
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 15
pm.start_servers = 3
pm.min_spare_servers = 2
pm.max_spare_servers = 3
pm.process_idle_timeout = 10s;
pm.max_requests = 10

Do not take this config as-is. I've a group of nginx+php-fpm servers 
running for wordpress and drupal (2 each) but your activity may be 
considerably higher than what I've got.

The key parts here are the "pm." options so you'll probably want to 
investigate each setting and tune to your requirements.

Steve.

On 19/08/2015 07:02, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On 2015-08-18 14:36, Steve Wilson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When I migrated from apache+mod_php to nginx+php-fpm I found I had a
>> few websites using persistent mysql connections which never closed.
> 
> Steve, thanks for this tip. This surely was part of the problem, but
> not all of it.
> 
> Sure enough, when I first noticed this problem, I also found in dmesg
> messages like this:
> 
> Out of memory: kill process 31066 (mysqld) score 30155 or a child
> Killed process 31066 (mysqld)
> 
> yesterday, as soon as I was able to ssh again, I turned
> 
> mysql.allow_persistent = Off in php.ini (it was On)
> 
> and restarted everything. Page load time decreased noticeably AND there
> where no more mysql crashes for the rest of the day.
> This morning, however, I found mysql died again with the same symptom
> (dead but subsystem locked) and a DIFFERENT message in dmesg, that I
> had never seen before:
> 
> Out of memory: kill process 13812 (php-fpm) score 18223 or a child
> Killed process 13812 (php-fpm)
> 
> the nginx and php-fpm configuration files are pasted below (I have
> several virtual
> hosts all configured that way for wordpress, plus one drupal and one
> semantic scuttle
> site, if it matters). What next? Any help is welcome!
> 
> Marco
> 
> [root at fima ~]# more /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
> 
> user              nginx;
> worker_processes  1;
> 
> error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
> #error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  notice;
> #error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  info;
> 
> pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
> 
> 
> events {
>     worker_connections  1024;
> }
> 
> http {
>     include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
>     default_type  application/octet-stream;
> 
>     server_names_hash_bucket_size  64;
>     server_tokens off;
>     access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log combined  buffer=32k;
>     log_format    '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $status '
>                       '"$request" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
>                       '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
> 
>     sendfile        on;
>     #tcp_nopush     on;
> 
>     #keepalive_timeout  0;
>     keepalive_timeout  65;
> 
>     #gzip  on;
> 
>     # Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
>     # The default server is in conf.d/default.conf
>     include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
> 
> }
> 
> and this is configuration for one of the wordpress sites, I only 
> changed
> the domain name. The configuration is due to the fact that, for several
> reasons out of my control, I **must** run two fully independent 
> wordpress
> installations, but "nested" into each other, that is:
> 
> myblog.example.com/   (english blog, by wordpress installed in
> $documentroot/myblog)
> myblog.example.com/it (italian version, by separate wordpress
> installed in $documentroot/myblog_it)
> 
> the above worked fine with apache. Can the equivalent config for
> nginx be related to the problem I'm seeing? If yes, how, and how to
> fix it? And while we are at this: advice on anything else I could 
> optimize is
> also very welcome of course, even if not related to the main problem.
> 
> 
> [root at fima ~]# more /etc/nginx/conf.d/stop.conf
> 
> server {
>        listen       80;
>        server_name  myblog.example.com;
>        root         /var/www/html/wordpress/;
>        include      /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;
> 
>        # configuration for the italian version, installed
>        # in root/myblog_it, but having as url example.com/stop/it
> 
>        location ^~ /it/ {
>               	rewrite ^/it/(.+) /myblog_it/$1 ;
>        	      	index             /myblog_it/index.php;
>        }
> 
>        location /myblog_it/ {
>        		try_files $uri $uri/ /myblog_it/index.php?args;
> 		index index.php;
> 		location ~ \.php$ {
> 			 fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/phpfpm.sock;
> 			 fastcgi_index  index.php;
> 			 fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
> 			 include        fastcgi_params;
> 			 }
> 		}
> 
> ##################################################################
> # main blog
> 
>         location ^~ / {
>                  rewrite ^/(.+) /myblog/$1 ;
>                  index          /myblog/index.php;
> 		 }
> 
> 	location /myblog/ {
> 		 try_files /$uri /$uri/ /myblog/index.php?args;
>     	 	 index                        index.php;
> 		 }
> 
> 	location ~ \.php$ {
>         	 fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/phpfpm.sock;
>                  fastcgi_index  index.php;
>                  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME
> $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
>                  include        fastcgi_params;
>       	 	}
> }
> 
> 
> php-fpm configuration:
> 
> [root ~]# grep -v '^;' /etc/php-fpm.conf | uniq
> 
> include=/etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf
> 
> [global]
> pid = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.pid
> 
> error_log = /var/log/php-fpm/error.log
> 
> daemonize = no
> 
> emergency_restart_threshold = 10
> emergency_restart_interval = 1m
> process_control_timeout = 10s
> 
> AND ALSO:
> 
> [root ~]# grep -v '^;' /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf | uniq
> [www]
> 
> 
> listen.allowed_clients = 127.0.0.1
> 
> listen = /tmp/phpfpm.sock
> listen.owner = nginx
> listen.group = nginx
> user = nginx
> group = nginx
> 
> pm = dynamic
> 
> pm.max_children = 50
> 
> pm.start_servers = 5
> 
> pm.min_spare_servers = 5
> 
> pm.max_spare_servers = 35
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> slowlog = /var/log/php-fpm/www-slow.log
> 
> 
> php_admin_value[error_log] = /var/log/php-fpm/www-error.log
> php_admin_flag[log_errors] = on
> 
> php_value[session.save_handler] = files
> php_value[session.save_path] = /var/lib/php/session



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