apache - mod_fcgid: ap_pass_brigade failed in handle_request function

Question

I keep on getting warning in my error logs:

(103)Software caused connection abort: mod_fcgid: ap_pass_brigade failed in handle_request function 

Here is my fcgid.conf

<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
SocketPath /var/lib/httpd/fcgid/sock
IdleTimeout 200
IdleScanInterval 200
ProcessLifeTime 1000
MaxProcessCount 1000
DefaultMinClassProcessCount 3
DefaultMaxClassProcessCount 100
IPCConnectTimeout 8
IPCCommTimeout 200
BusyTimeout 300
</IfModule>

The server serves up a 500 error once in a while, then is pretty speedy for a while, then serves up another 500 error... Is there anyway to stop this from happening?

Answer 1

By default FastCGI processes exit after 500 requests. You can either raise PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS (in the wrapper) or limit FcgidMaxRequestsPerProcess to 500.

See http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.html#examples "Special PHP considerations"