PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with handling heavy traffic and heavy-loaded websites and requests. The PHP-FPM advanced process management with start/stop.
If you run php-fpm service on LEMP( Linux, NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) stack, most probabaly use the php-fpm service with proxy, this is widely-used and produce high-performance.
Have installed LEMP stack on my instance for the WordPress application, but it's taking huge memory usage and very slow, then not able to view the webiste as a normal speed. Sometimes stopped or 502 bad gateway error. After we analysed the system was running low on RAM: PHP-FPM had consume most of the RAM space.
Enter the command top -c and hit the keys SHIFT+M can see the output like below,
Here, how do we prevent and resolve this problem php-fpm from consuming too much or all your system memory (RAM) in Linux.
Reduce PHP-FPM Memory Usage
We need to look at a file www.conf configuration file of php-fpm, that is located by default in differernt path based on your operating system.
On CentOS/RHEL/Fedora:
On Ubuntu/Debian/Mint:
On Bitnami stack:
Just add the lines below if you are not added previously,
pm.max_children = 80
pm.process_idle_timeout = 10s
pm.max_requests = 200
pm -> The default configuration is "dynamic" set to "ondemand" how the process manager will control the number of child processes.
pm.max_children -> It defines the maximum number of children process running at the same time.
pm.process_idle_timeout -> The number of seconds after which an idle process will be killed.
pm.max_requests -> number of requests each child process should execute before respawning.
Restart the service on Bitnami,
$ /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart php-fpm
Restart the service on Ubuntu/CentOS/RHEL/Debian,
systemctl restart php-fpm.service # typical
systemctl restart php5-fpm.service # uncommon
systemctl restart php7.0-fpm.service # uncommon PHP 7
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