If you look at the RC1 source of the upcoming 5.3.3 release of PHP you see that the PHP-FPM sapi is already included. PHP-FPM was announced to be in the 5.4 release. Hopefully this gets not changed in the final release.
Why i am so excited about that? “PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.”
Some features:
- Adaptive process spawning (NEW!)
- Basic statistics (ala Apache’s mod_status) (NEW!)
- Advanced process management with graceful stop/start
- Ability to start workers with different uid/gid/chroot/environment and different php.ini (replaces safe_mode)
- Stdout & stderr logging
- Emergency restart in case of accidental opcode cache destruction
- Accelerated upload support
- Support for a “slowlog”
- Enhancements to FastCGI, such as fastcgi_finish_request() – a special function to finish request & flush all data while continuing to do something time-consuming (video converting, stats processing, etc.)
If you do not want to wait until php-fpm is finally in an official php release, you can easily and safely use php-fpm on every php-5.3 release. It is also possible to patch the current stable version of php-5.2.13. Follow the instructions on their Download Site
Additional Information for php-fpm:
