#28343 [NEW]: PHP 4.3.6 / Apache 2.0.49 (worker) / FastCGI: Starts lots of PHP-CGIs

From: webmaster at whocares dot de Operating system: SuSE Linux 9.0 PHP version: 4.3.6 PHP Bug Type: CGI related Bug description: PHP 4.3.6 / Apache 2.0.49 (worker) / FastCGI: Starts lots of PHP-CGIs Description: ------------ As stated in the summary, I'm running PHP in FastCGI mode with Apache 2.0.49 and mod_fastcgi 2.4.2. After upgrading from PHP 4.3.5 to PHP 4.3.6 I noticed that a lot more PHP CGIs were running on the server. Before it were 10, afterwards it were 79. It seems to me that instead of starting the specified amount of PHP CGIs per active Apache server (5, see code below) with PHP 4.3.6 it will start the specified number of CGI provcesses for every instance (child process) of the Apache server. Compile settings for PHP 4.3.5 and 4.3.6: ./configure \ --disable-ipv6 \ --enable-calendar \ --enable-ftp \ --enable-force-cgi-redirect \ --enable-magic-quotes \ --enable-mbstring \ --enable-mbregex \ --enable-memory-limit \ --enable-mime-magic \ --enable-sigchild \ --with-bz2 \ --with-config-file-path=/etc \ --with-curl \ --with-db4 \ --with-freetype-dir \ --with-gd \ --with-gettext \ --with-jpeg-dir \ --with-mcrypt \ --with-mhash \ --with-mysql=/usr \ --with-openssl \ --with-png-dir \ --with-t1lib \ --with-tiff-dir \ --with-xmlrpc \ --with-zlib \ --enable-fastcgi Integration in Apache: <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> ScriptAlias /fcgi-bin/ /opt/apache/fcgi/ <Location /fcgi-bin/> Options ExecCGI SetHandler fastcgi-script </Location> # Alias /fcgi-bin/ /opt/apache/fcgi/ FastCgiServer /opt/apache/fcgi/php-fcgi -processes 5 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Action application/x-httpd-php /fcgi-bin/php-fcgi </IfModule> The CGI version of PHP is copied to /opt/apache/fcgi using cp sapi/cgi/php /opt/apache/fcgi/php-fcgi Expected result: ---------------- With PHP 4.3.5, evaluating the running processes will show a reasonable small number: linux:~/soft/php-4.3.5 # ps ax | grep php-fcgi | wc -l 7 linux:~/soft/php-4.3.5 # ps ax | grep httpd2 | wc -l 32 linux:~/soft/php-4.3.5 # Actual result: -------------- With PHP 4.3.6 the same command shows a lot more running PHP CGIs: linux:~/soft/php-4.3.6 # ps ax | grep php-fcgi | wc -l 47 linux:~/soft/php-4.3.6 # ps ax | grep httpd2 | wc -l 32 linux:~/soft/php-4.3.6 # -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=28343&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28343&r=float