More than 1200 php processes - 99 % memory and swap usage

[smart7324]

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Problem

Today I logged into my OPNsense dashboard and saw 99% memory and swap usage. I found out that there were 1231 php processes running, each using more than 60 MB of RAM.

A reboot of course fixed the issue, as after reboot only 8 php processes are running, but this can happen again I guess?

How can there be so many processes? Isn't there any limit set how many php processes can be spawned? I kind of know the configuration of php-fpm, there you can provide a maximum number of processes to fork. But it seems OPNsense core is not using php-fpm, but php-cgi.

I would be very happy about any help!

OPNsense 24.1.6-amd64
FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p11
OpenSSL 3.0.13

Never experienced these problems before...

[AdSchellevis]

ps faxd | grep php ?

[smart7324]

Yeah now it's only the 8 processes. Will keep an eye on it and reply if it rises again...

root@opnsense:~ # ps faxd | grep php
 2996  0  S+     0:00.00 |       `-- grep php
19370  -  Is     0:00.03 | |-- /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
20452  -  S      0:01.49 | | |-- /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
22164  -  I      0:00.15 | | |-- /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
23878  -  I      0:00.76 | | `-- /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
20027  -  Is     0:00.03 | `-- /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
16663  -  S      0:00.75 |   |-- /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
46318  -  S      0:00.42 |   |-- /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
73876  -  S      0:00.45 |   `-- /usr/local/bin/php-cgi