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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Gearman support for php-fpm?
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 6/10/10 9:31 AM, Brian Moon wrote:
>> [gearman]
>> worker1.path = /path/to/worker1.php
>> worker1.pm = dynamic
>> worker1.pm.max_children = 10
>> worker1.pm.start_servers = 5
>>
>> worker2.path = /path/to/worker2.php
>> worker2.pm = dynamic
>> worker2.pm.max_children = 4
>> worker2.pm.start_servers = 2
> 
> So, this is a proposed new entry in the ini format? I am a bit ignorant
> about fpm, I admit. This would require a good bit of fiddling for our
> gearman set up to work with it. We run X workers that know how to do all
> jobs available and then 1 + n (defined by ini file) that only do one job
> for each available job.  This gives us good coverage with controlled
> process load.  I guess it would just require a lot more configuration
> than we have now. For example, could we pass parameters to the script?
> Having a separate script plus a separate class for every function
> quickly makes a lot of files.
> 
> I will simply stay tuned and see where it goes.
> 
> FWIW, this is my GearmanManager that basically does this already via
> PHP+pcntl. http://github.com/brianlmoon/GearmanManager. It can not
> dynamically ramp up more workers like FPM can. But, I would never run it
> that way anyhow. I like my processes under control.

Yes, I know, I have seen it.  Process management and signal handling
like that really isn't something that should be done in PHP as far as I
am concerned.  And FPM already does all of this and more.  It just needs
a slight tweak to be able to manage any sort of php process.

-Rasmus