Enabling PHP-FPM

[JanKrohn]

Hi,

I came across some claims that PHP-FPM would be more performant on busy sites, so I've tried to enable it. I have ~13,000 visitors per day.

So I've read the cPanel documentation on FPM, enabled the missing modules in EA4, and switched FPM on for my main domain.

It seemed to be running good for a few minutes, then got slower, and finally the site wouldn't load any longer.

Switched FPM off and on again. Same thing. Site got slower, and went down.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot? (I run PHP 7.1 and MariaDB 10.1, but also tested on PHP 7.0 with the same outcome...)

Thanks!
Jan

 

[cPanelMichael]

Any ideas how to troubleshoot? (I run PHP 7.1 and MariaDB 10.1, but also tested on PHP 7.0 with the same outcome...)

Hello,

Do you notice any specific output to /var/log/apache2/error_log during the times when the website would not load?

Thank you.

 

[JanKrohn]

Indeed! There are a couple of error messages:

The site wnt down at 13:13, and came back 13:18. Here all all (non ModSecurity related) error messages in between:

[Thu Dec 22 13:14:04.328899 2016] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 12786] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: [client 172.245.4.222:52146] AH01075: Error dispatching request to : (polling)
[Thu Dec 22 13:23:17.711202 2016] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 14872] [client 113.199.200.133:49700] AH01071: Got error 'Primary script unknown\n'
[Thu Dec 22 13:18:19.757029 2016] [mpm_prefork:error] [pid 12295] AH00161: servver reached MaxRequestWorkers setting, consider raising the MaxRequestWorkers setting
[Thu Dec 22 13:18:39.528963 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 12295] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Thu Dec 22 13:18:42.404787 2016] [suexec:notice] [pid 14139] AH01232: suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Dec 22 13:18:42.613711 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 14140] AH00163: Apache/2.4.23 (cPanel) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Dec 22 13:18:42.613734 2016] [core:notice] [pid 14140] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd'

Most of those messages occurred multiple times.

 

[cPanelMichael]

[Thu Dec 22 13:14:04.328899 2016] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 12786] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: [client 172.245.4.222:52146] AH01075: Error dispatching request to : (polling)

Hello,

Please let us know if the information on the following thread helps:

mod_proxy_fcgi configuration and settings

Thank you.

 

[JanKrohn]

Thanks! My performance issues were actually caused by lack of server resources. I have no more need now to switch to FPM.

Best wishes,
Jan

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

I'm happy to see you were able to address the primary issue. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.