# Nginx + php 5.3.5 fpm result is high server load **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [February 26, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-php-5-3-5-fpm-result-is-high-server-load/203770 "2011-02-26T22:53:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-php-5-3-5-fpm-result-is-high-server-load/203770/1 "2011-02-26T22:53:23Z")
Hi Guys, we try to migrate our apache 2.2 mod\_fcgid with php-cgi configuration to nginx + php-fpm from ports on our freebsd 8.2 stable system.We hosted round 200-300 sites. The result is high load of the server, lots of system calls and mysql-server 5.1.55 has doubling his threads. Any suggestion ? Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[nginx + php 5.3.5 fpm result is high server load](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,178667,178667#msg-178667)** > > Hi Guys, we try to migrate our apache 2.2 mod\_fcgid with php-cgi configuration to nginx + php-fpm from ports on our freebsd 8.2 stable system.We hosted round 200-300 sites. The result is high load of the server, lots of system calls and mysql-server... ---
**Author:** ![izrodix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3d9bf3/32.png) [@izrodix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/izrodix)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-php-5-3-5-fpm-result-is-high-server-load/203770/2 "2011-02-27T13:49:18Z")
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 16:52 -0500, izrodix wrote: > Hi Guys, > we try to migrate our apache 2.2 mod\_fcgid with php-cgi configuration > to nginx + php-fpm from ports on our freebsd 8.2 stable system.We hosted > round 200-300 sites. > > The result is high load of the server, lots of system calls and > mysql-server 5.1.55 has doubling his threads. > > Any suggestion ? What’s the filesystem format underneath? We’ve seen some issues recently with NFS performance if the PHP include path is in the wrong order which drove the load up to over 200 on a 24-core server with 16G RAM. We also saw some issues with the maximum memory limits set in /etc/sysctl.conf which created “false” load in a similar range on the same box. HTH, M. ---
**Author:** ![izrodix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3d9bf3/32.png) [@izrodix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/izrodix)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-php-5-3-5-fpm-result-is-high-server-load/203770/3 "2011-03-02T22:50:55Z")
We are using standart UFS file system but IO is not the problem. This is strange the CPU user == system. With apache22 with mod\_fcgid we have round 20-25% idle and the system load is very low. last pid: 25961; load averages: 48.43, 34.30, 36.86 ``` up 5+00:02:08 23:45:08 ``` 184 processes: 69 running, 114 sleeping, 1 lock CPU: 52.5% user, 0.0% nice, 47.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 1786M Active, 4256M Inact, 1256M Wired, 213M Cache, 828M Buf, 407M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 92K Used, 4096M Free Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx + php 5.3.5 fpm result is high server load](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,178667,179798#msg-179798)** > > Hi Guys, we try to migrate our apache 2.2 mod\_fcgid with php-cgi configuration to nginx + php-fpm from ports on our freebsd 8.2 stable system.We hosted round 200-300 sites. The result is high load of the server, lots of system calls and mysql-server... ---
**Author:** ![izrodix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3d9bf3/32.png) [@izrodix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/izrodix)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-php-5-3-5-fpm-result-is-high-server-load/203770/4 "2011-03-07T22:50:07Z")
Hi list We have a setup with central NFS server (using 64 NFS daemons at the moment) and 10 servers that mounts data via NFS4. The NFS server is using XFS, Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-30). It’s a VM with gigabit interface and it delivers around 50-80 MBit in peak time. It’s a quad core machine with 8 Gig of memory. > From time to time the load literally explodes on the NFS server and eventually > also on the webservers since they can’t access the content on the NFS server. I found this post via Google and you mentioned that you had a similar problem with PHP include path - care to enlighten what the problem was and how you solved it? Also - if possible - could I have a look at your sysctl.conf file ? Kind regards, Lasse L.