Server Keeps Taking “Dumps” Every 10 Or So Minutes, Why?

[Chrisguy12]

I have PHP5-CGI installed, Apache, and MYSQL installed.

Prior to adding these settings, PHP5-CGI would endlessly have >15 processes, each eating up 5 mb of ram. So I added these settings to /etc/apache2/conf.d/php5-fcgid.conf and the PHP5-cgi processes were limited.

However, now, everytime I open let's say 20 threads/pages in 4 or 5 minutes, the server stops running properly, things freeze and pages stop loading, until 2 or 3 minutes pass by, then it's lightening bolt fast again.

 

AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi .php

 

# Where to look for the php.ini file?

DefaultInitEnv PHPRC "/etc/php5/cgi"

# Where is the PHP executable

FCGIWrapper /usr/bin/php-cgi .php

# Maximum requests a process handles before it is terminated

MaxRequestsPerProcess 1500

# Maximum number of PHP processes.

MaxProcessCount 15

# Number of seconds of idle time before a process is terminated

IPCCommTimeout 240

IdleTimeout 240

 

ServerLimit 2048

ThreadLimit 100

StartServers 10

MinSpareThreads 30

MaxSpareThreads 100

ThreadsPerChild 64

MaxClients 2048

MaxRequestsPerChild 5000

I am running a website (smf forum) that averages around 450 users per 20 minutes, so it gets a little hectic. So, what's going on?

[trq]

IS there a particular reason your running php under cgi as apposed to an Apache module? I would think the later is a more robust solution.