Zombie fcgid processes don' t die

[Sannin]

It was supposed to be fixed in EA 3.12. Unfortunately it wasn't fixed as we can all see. I opened a ticket at cpanel and the person i spoke to, told me that he communicated with the developers but he had nothing new to tell me.

I believe that cpanel team doesn't pay much attention to this bug, because they think that mod_ruid2 is a better solution at the moment and officially supported. However a smooth transition from mod_fcgid to mod_ruid2 is not guaranteed, there have been some reports with mod_security problems among others.

Personally i will keep mod_fcgid around a bit longer, even with the kill command running every 5 minutes, to get rid of the abandoned processes. I have my hopes up for upcoming php-fpm support.

[muppsy007]

Yeah, I bumped into those mod_ruid2 reccommendations on other threads after posting last. Mainly Tristran's comments on this thread:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f189/reduce...hm-275962.html

After looking more into mod_ruid2, and fcgi memory issues, I am almost resigned to switching handlers. Tristran does make a valid point that fcgi may be too configurable for your average cPanel admin. I'm a developer running my own VPS. I'm not a server guru so maybe a more managable handler is better for me in the long run.

What's the deal with this kill cron anyway? I've seen it mentioned, but nothing specific. Something about a -9 modifier?

[Sannin]

The cron kill command i use is this :

0-59/5 * * * * ps auxwwwf | grep '[0-9] /usr/bin/php' | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9 >> /dev/null 2>&1

It runs every 5 (!) minutes, cause i am ram limited and i can't afford wasted memory. I consider mod_security very important, so i am not going to switch. Instead i am expecting from cpanel stuff to fix the errors because although mod_fcgid is not recommended, it is supported by cpanel.

[muppsy007]

Thanks very much Sannin.

I'll put that in place for the time being and keep an eye out on both the bug resolution for fcgi and how mod_ruid2 progresses in terms of acceptance.

[Fr3DBr]

Hello,

So do we still have to keep using the crontab trick or did anyone found the solution ?