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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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. <br>
<br>
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).</font></font><br>
<br>
Cliff Wells wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:1235010993.3446.2473.camel@localhost.localdomain"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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
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From: Stefan Bühler <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lighttpd@stbuehler.de"><lighttpd@stbuehler.de></a>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lighttpd-announce@lists.lighttpd.net">lighttpd-announce@lists.lighttpd.net</a>
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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/wiki">http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/wiki</a>
In case you would like to test a spawn-fcgi version with more features
(options for chown the socket), see here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cgit.stbuehler.de/gitosis/spawn-fcgi/about/">http://cgit.stbuehler.de/gitosis/spawn-fcgi/about/</a> (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*
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.tar.gz">http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.tar.gz</a>
MD5: ff19abc92b74fd8c7099291aff0caa95
SHA1: 883ccaeb9be21e0eda2f03b37e43795abf403845
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.tar.bz2">http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.tar.bz2</a>
MD5: 19099d04b133222329f1f6eed12b6398
SHA1: f6fb10a5c71a3d7b23889be614c5ecb232ce4563
- SHA1 checksums:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.sha1sum">http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.sha1sum</a>
- MD5 checksums:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.md5sum">http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.md5sum</a>
*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
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<p><strong>Phillip B Oldham</strong><br>
The Activity People<br>
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