I have a system where each user (about 20) gets their own instance of nginx and their own small pool of PHP5-FPM processes. A front-end nginx instance proxies requests to the appropriate nginx instance, which then either sends it to PHP5-FPM or serves it itself.
The strange thing is that every so often (once a couple of months ago, once today at 6:30 AM) the pools all exit without writing anything to the php5-fpm.log file they're configured to write to. (The front-end then starts returning 502 errors because it can't get the request to the PHP workers.)
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and PHP 5.3.6, with one change from the default package: I have changed the syntax for the cron job to clean up old sessions based on this answer on ServerFault. The new syntax is:
09,39 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -amin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -delete
I've checked syslog around that time, and the only activity around that time is cron logging a command at 6:25 AM:
Feb 10 06:25:01 peninsula CRON[31060]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ))
I don't see anything in /etc/cron.daily/ that looks like it would have any effect on PHP5-FPM:
$ ls /etc/cron.daily/
apport apt aptitude bsdmainutils dpkg logrotate man-db mlocate passwd popularity-contest standard
Anyone experienced something similar? Anyone have suggestions of where I should look next?
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