#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
FCGI_PURE_RUBY = false
require 'fcgi'
count = 0
FCGI.each_cgi do |cgi|
sleep 60 if count < 3
cgi.out { "hi: #{count}, #{Time.now}" }
count += 1
endThen, I configured the server with only one FCGI process, and hit it 7 times in a row, waiting for the first to finish before grabbing the next. Here's the results:
Mon Jan 17 16:23:07 PST 2005 500 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> Mon Jan 17 16:23:37 PST 2005 500 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> Mon Jan 17 16:24:07 PST 2005 500 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> Mon Jan 17 16:24:37 PST 2005 500 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> Mon Jan 17 16:25:07 PST 2005 500 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> Mon Jan 17 16:25:37 PST 2005 200 hi: 5, Mon Jan 17 16:25:38 PST 2005 Mon Jan 17 16:25:37 PST 2005 200 hi: 6, Mon Jan 17 16:25:38 PST 2005
The <!DOCTYPE lines are Apache 500 pages from the script timing out after 30 seconds of not writing anything. As you can see, there's 5 500 errors, not three. When you hit the max process limit, your requests just queue up, sending your server into a death-spiral of doom.
Fortunately, though, so long as the requests are queued, they'll continue to be fulfilled by the FCGI processes.
