php-cgi dies quietly every few hours in low traffic

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php-cgi -v 

   PHP 5.2.11-pl1-gentoo (cgi-fcgi) (built: Dec 21 2009 09:10:29)
    Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

System info

dev-lang/php-5.2.11-r1
gentoo 10.1

Update: I’ just compiled PHP with the minimal USE flags turned on. Seems better now. Let’s wait a bit longer.

Answer

Well php does this sometimes, you might want to set PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS environment variable, which will force php to kill itself after some number of requests and being reexecuted, so the problem won’t appear.

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Source : Link , Question Author : Cheng , Answer Author : Michal Čihař

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