php-cgi dies quietly every few hours in low traffic

Question

php-cgi -v

   PHP 5.2.11-pl1-gentoo (cgi-fcgi) (built: Dec 21 2009 09:10:29)
    Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

System info

dev-lang/php-5.2.11-r1
gentoo 10.1

Update: I' just compiled PHP with the minimal USE flags turned on. Seems better now. Let's wait a bit longer.

I'm certainly going to sleep better at night now. – rodjek Dec 23 '09 at 10:40 — rodjek, Dec 23 '09 at 10:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 23 '09 at 12:05

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Well php does this sometimes, you might want to set PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS environment variable, which will force php to kill itself after some number of requests and being reexecuted, so the problem won't appear.

answered Dec 23 '09 at 12:05

Michal Čihař

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Cheng · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-20T19:19:03.560

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I' just compiled PHP with the minimal USE flags turned on. No crash again for two days.

BTW: It seems the memory was too small, it was 256MB. Now on a server with 512MB memory, the PHP works well with default USE flags.

edited Jan 20 '10 at 19:19

answered Dec 26 '09 at 12:24

Cheng

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php-cgi dies quietly every few hours in low traffic

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