Comment Comment by pkandathil I have seen the calculation as written in this article many times. Is it wrong: http://nls.io/post/optimize-nginx-and-php-fpm-max_childrenpm.max_children = (total RAM - RAM used by other process) / (average amount of RAM used by a PHP process) parent pkandathil 13 years ago
pm.max_children = (total RAM - RAM used by other process) / (average amount of RAM used by a PHP process)