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php fpm oom killer problem how to dig it.. memory pool and execution time

 

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  • simple solution:  php fpm out of memory, limit php processing power
  • reduce php max_excution time top cuttoff the long running processes
  • kinsta php max execution time
    • wpengine php max execution time
  • 2nd solution increase resource or upgrade server
  • 3rd rate limiting by nginx incase ddos
  • checking for logs to find php fpm oom killer
    • nginx error log
    • php fpm error log: increase number
    • kernel log

simple solution:  php fpm out of memory, limit php processing power

 

pm = ondemand
pm.max_children = 80  (here to control) * php max memory limit.
pm.process_idle_timeout = 10s
pm.max_requests = 200

memory_limit = 128M 
max_input_vars = 2000
upload_max_filesize = 64M
post_max_size = 64M
max_execution_time = 120

 

reduce php max_excution time top cuttoff the long running processes

s mentioned, the max_execution_time WordPress error appears after a plugin, theme, or WordPress update takes too long to run a PHP script.

hostinger php max execution time  (sahared hosting 30 seconds)

php_value memory_limit 256M

php_value max_execution_time 60

 

my case 300 minutes or 5 minutes with  midnight cron job.. // may be tht cuaused

kinsta php max execution time

Kinsta customers cannot alter the PHP timeout.

wpengine php max execution time

Default max_execution_time for scripts is set to 60 seconds.

This setting can only be decreased, and cannot be increased. If you are performing a task which will take over 60 seconds to complete, the task should be broken into smaller segments and run in batches.

Default max_execution_time for scripts is set to 60 seconds.

yoast seo causes php

godaddy php max execution time Managed WordPress

bluehost php max execution time

hostgator php max execution time

SiteGround hosting allows 120 seconds as a default value which should be sufficient in most cases.

2nd solution increase resource or upgrade server

 

increase memory to php or increase overall memory resources.

 

3rd rate limiting by nginx incase ddos

location is important here path to php script

checking for logs to find php fpm oom killer

nginx error log

only after php dead error php fpm sock failed and cloudlfare proixy bad gateway host error.

php fpm error log: increase number

WARNING: [pool www] server reached max_children setting (10), consider raising it |(on demand pool)

[05-Aug-2023 22:18:13] WARNING: [pool sarkari] seems busy (you may need to increase pm.start_servers, or pm.min/max_spare_servers), spawning 32 children, there are 0 idle, and 18 total children
[05-Aug-2023 23:10:15] NOTICE: Terminating …
[05-Aug-2023 23:10:16] NOTICE: exiting, bye-bye!   (dead here by oom killer)

[03-Aug-2023 05:48:40] NOTICE: Terminating …
[03-Aug-2023 05:48:40] NOTICE: exiting, bye-bye!
[03-Aug-2023 06:24:24] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 101392
[03-Aug-2023 06:24:24] NOTICE: ready to handle connections
[03-Aug-2023 06:24:24] NOTICE: systemd monitor interval set to 10000ms

kernel log

Aug 5 23:10:15 murali kernel: [10234715.140947] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=php8.1-fpm.service,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/system.slice/php8.1-fpm.service,task=php-fpm8.1,pid=310693,uid=33
Aug 5 23:10:15 murali kernel: [10234715.140962] Out of memory: Killed process 310693 (php-fpm8.1) total-vm:787640kB, anon-rss:161588kB, file-rss:2824kB, shmem-rss:102016kB, UID:33 pgtables:776kB oom_score_adj:0

Aug 9 05:12:38 murali kernel: [10515650.545250] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=mysql.service,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/system.slice/php8.1-fpm.service,task=php-fpm8.1,pid=472715,uid=33
Aug 9 05:12:38 murali kernel: [10515650.545264] Out of memory: Killed process 472715 (php-fpm8.1) total-vm:919360kB, anon–rss:190496kB, file-rss:2904kB, shmem-rss:275388kB, UID:33 pgtables:1272kB oom_score_adj:0

190MB

update; as of 6th august  2023 satisfied with decreasing php max execution time 300 seconds to 120 seconds  just like managed wordpress hosting providers like kinsta and wpengine and some shared hosting providers like hostingler.

9th august again invoked oomkiller memory 356mb per process total memory 3.83 but

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