SOLVED PHP-FPM pm dynamic / static / ondemand option

I had to create this thread since the forum didnt let me post in a one year old thread which deals with the exact same issue. So, here goes:

I want to change the pm setting and set it to static. However i am not able to determine the proper way to do it.

Above post refers to the below page

PHP-FPM Code and FileSystem Layout for EasyApache 4 - Version 68 Documentation - cPanel Documentation

And a non-applicable guide from a forum post in which someone upgraded their easyapache 3 to easyapache 4 and fpm.

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Do i have to put my dynamic/static choice in /opt/cpanel/ea-phpXX/root/etc/php-fpm.conf for each PHP version per that doc page?

In those files it says that these files are auto generated - which means they would be overwritten?

In the doc it talks about below yaml files

• /var/cpanel/ApachePHPFPM/system.yaml
• /var/cpanel/ApachePHPFPM/system_pool_defaults.yaml
  

However they dont exist in my system? Do i create them and put my settings in? Which one? Do i use the syntax which php-fpm.conf uses, if not, which syntax do i use? yaml syntax?

 

I saved the values in

/var/cpanel/ApachePHPFPM/system.yaml

pm: static
pm.max_children: 400

and used

/scripts/php_fpm_config --rebuild

and it worked. Thanks.

 

Doing the exact same operation on another server, now im getting


ERROR: [/opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/etc/php-fpm.conf:47] unknown entry 'pm'

It seems now somehow pm entry is not recognized despite it was recognized before.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

 

Yes, i followed that guide and it doesnt work.

When i removed those values from /var/cpanel/ApachePHPFPM/system.yaml

and instead put them in

/var/cpanel/ApachePHPFPM/system_pool_defaults.yaml

it seems to have worked.

But of course, i cant be sure. I am seeing a higher number of php-fpm processes in ps -aux | grep php* , so i think it may have worked.

If someone can confirm that i would appreciate it.

 

Per your post above:

- I made changes to the default value. This didnt change the amount of processes one particular site user can spawn. Despite it seems to increase the total amount of spawned processes by php-fpm.

- When i changed the individual values for children for that site account in php-fpm config for that account in MultiPHP manager in WHM, that allowed more php processes for the user.

So it seems changing default values after a user is created has no effect. Individual values from MultiPHP php-fpm configuration must be changed per domain if a user already exists.

I think we can consider this solved. Thanks.