From:             e at osterman dot com
Operating system: FC6
PHP version:      5.2.0
PHP Bug Type:     CGI related
Bug description:  FastCGI Requests silently dropped

Description:
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Dimitry states in bug #37422:
> The "indle timeout" error is not a bug. It may occur
> on high load, then requests concurrency is larger
> then number of running PHP processes.

This is the incorrect behavior and makes it impossible to detect when
php-cgi is taking forever or simply ignoring you. 

According to the FastCGI specification, when the server is overloaded
(e.g. connections exceed PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN), it should respond with
FCGI_END_REQUEST packet with the protocolStatus flag of FCGI_OVERLOADED.
The current behavior is php-cgi accepts the request, but never responds --
simply discarding it. It would be much better if PHP responded with
FCGI_OVERLOADED, or simply rejected connections when it is too busy.

http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html#S5.5


Reproduce code:
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To reproduce, open up more than PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN connections to the
php-cgi server. All connections will be accepted and all will accept
packets, but only PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN of the connections will ever return a
response. The rest of the connections will simply accept the request and
do nothing.

Expected result:
----------------
Server should respond with FCGI_END_REQUEST packet with the protocolStatus
flag of FCGI_OVERLOADED or simply reject connections when connections
exceed PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN.

Actual result:
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php-cgi never responds; request is lost.

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