Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/26/06 00:50

Joshua Ruppert wrote:
> With that said I'm not sure what my problem is. I have a website that
> has already been developed running Win2K and PHP 4, that I tried to
> switch over to FastCGI. When I did this every thing ran fine for a
> while, until we had a spike in traffic. (Since FastCGI was tried we
> have moved to Win2K3.)
>
> The root cause of the problems seems to be the response time of the DB
> servers but I'm not certain. When the database servers became loaded,
> the PHP processes seemed to hang while waiting for the database to
> respond. Eventually this effected each of the PHP processes started by
> FastCGI, completely taking down the site.
>
> The only way I found to restart the PHP processes is to reboot the
> machine, because task manager did let me kill the processes that were
> started by FastCGI.
>
> Is there anything that you could see (slow DB connections or otherwise)
> that would cause this kind of behavior?
>
> I used the PHPLens.com EasyWindows PHP Installer, but I'm having
> trouble finding resources to help me fine tune FastCGI opperation.
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
>

Is it possible you're getting into a deadlock situation? These are more
likely to show up when the database is busy, and you probably wouldn't
be able to cancel the task.

P.S. - please don't top post. Thanks.

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