Hi all,

I have Debian Squeeze with php 5.3.3-7+squeeze9 installed, running atop an nginx server.

For the past little while now, we've been experiencing intermittent website downtime due to the php process hanging. Whenever this happens, I need to log into root, and run "service php5-fastcgi restart" to spawn a new process.

In my php.ini, max_execution_time is set to 30, although there is a comment stating that using the CLI SAPI will ignore this parameter... so possibly my cronjob could be doing this.

Not knowing too much about server administration, but always willing to learn, I was wondering what commands I can invoke to see what exactly is going on with my server...!

At any rate, does anybody know where I can confirm my hypothesis?

Thanks!

First place would be to look at the web server logs and server logs. That should give you an idea of what might be taking place.

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Kevin a.k.a. Dweeber

Hi Dweeber,

Unfortunately, the logs do not show what any meaningful entries. The logging simply stops as the php-fastcgi process freezes.