[Catalyst] FCGI automatic restart / memory leaks

[Bernhard Graf]

On Thursday 16 August 2007 14:32, Tobias Kremer wrote:
> Quoting Bernhard Graf <catalyst2 at augensalat.de>:
> > You should definitely do that. Not only for this case - daemontools
> > (or similar like runit) are superior for nearly every server
> > service on *ix OSes. Check out
> > http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html and compare the scripts
> > with typical System-V run scripts (not mentioning the supervision
> > concept in general).
>
> I suppose that the whole fcgi-pm process will be restarted instead of
> individual fcgi processes, correct? That'd mean a downtime of about 5
> seconds which would render it useless to me :(

No. The softlimit applies to each of the processes forked by the master, 
so each process is terminated if it gets too fat.

> > Why two FCGI process managers? To compensate FCGI downtimes? Did
> > you find a way to tell lighttpd not to talk to an FCGI process that
> > is down? I only get a 500 error in that case.
>
> I just _hope_ that lighttpd will do the right thing as the error log
> tells me this when a backend server goes down:
>
> connect failed: Connection refused on unix:/srv/webapp.socket
> backend died; we'll disable it for 5 seconds and send the request to
> another backend instead: reconnects: 0 load: 1

Just by setting multiple "socket" entries in the lighttpd-conf?

-- 
Bernhard Graf