numerous /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/php-cgi

[Alan Lehman]

My VPS server has started producing numerous /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/php-cgi processes pointing to index.php on my httpd server root. Eventually the server overloads and hangs with hundreds of these apparently stuck processes running. If I stop httpd, they stop accumulating and I can kill them.

Can someone help me identify the cause.

Thank you,

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hi @Alan Lehman

That just indicates that the processes are PHP related (being that domain's version of php is 5.6) Most likely this is traffic accessing the site.

The following thread should be helpful: Troubleshooting High Loads On Linux Servers

Thanks!

 

[ken.echard.directive]

Hi @Alan Lehman

That just indicates that the processes are PHP related (being that domain's version of php is 5.6) Most likely this is traffic accessing the site.

The following thread should be helpful: Troubleshooting High Loads On Linux Servers

Thanks!

What does this mean if the site is set to 7.2 but still getting this process and this issue?

 

[cPanelLauren]

What does this mean if the site is set to 7.2 but still getting this process and this issue?

You're saying that you're getting this error specifically but none of the sites are running php 5.6? It would indicate you have a site running PHP 5.6, this process won't run without that version of PHP being used.

 

[ken.echard.directive]

You're saying that you're getting this error specifically but none of the sites are running php 5.6? It would indicate you have a site running PHP 5.6, this process won't run without that version of PHP being used.

Thanks for responding. What I'm seeing is multiple sites on the server within WHM. The Owner account for a specific site is showing /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/php-cgi as a process in the "Process Manager" in WHM. We currently put up a POST block on the site in htaccess file and it prevents this from happening but it seems to be as mentioned in the previous post where it creates a large number of processes eventually taking the whole server down.

Edit: I forgot to mention this site is on PHP 7.2 in Cpanel there may be a few sites on the server set to either 7.2 or 5.6 but it seems to be showing this for the site that is set to 7.2.

 

[cPanelLauren]

I'm not sure this is still a relevant issue in relation to this thread but can you please open a ticket using the link in my signature? Once open please reply with the Ticket ID here so that we can update this thread with the resolution once the ticket is resolved.


Thanks!

 

[Bestsupersite]

Thanks for responding. What I'm seeing is multiple sites on the server within WHM. The Owner account for a specific site is showing /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/php-cgi as a process in the "Process Manager" in WHM. We currently put up a POST block on the site in htaccess file and it prevents this from happening but it seems to be as mentioned in the previous post where it creates a large number of processes eventually taking the whole server down.

Edit: I forgot to mention this site is on PHP 7.2 in Cpanel there may be a few sites on the server set to either 7.2 or 5.6 but it seems to be showing this for the site that is set to 7.2.

Did you fixed the issue?

 

[bharat123]

Did you fixed the issue?

no sir

 

[bharat123]

anyone has solution for it

 

[xabungo]

anyone has solution for it

I don't have a solution , but I find out this is related to Wordpress in 2 of domains, the only 2 that have Wordpress.
I'm not sure what is causing

 

[Level4Services]

does your wordpress site have a robots.txt that contains "Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" by chance?

 

[Level4Services]

I had this issue and personally my fix was eliminating the "allow" line that included the admin-ajax.php AND moving that particular site to php-fpm. that seemed to clear my issue completely.