How to limit php-cgi processes?

Hi,

After posting, I found another post about website options: https://www.virtualmin.com/node/54570
This helped me to get the php-options to show up on a virtual server configuration (website options).
My question is:
How to limit the number of processes on Fastcgid execution mode?

I just set up my new server and after years of using Webmin, I started using Virtualmin with this one.
And I must say: Fabulous, I am impressed.
I used the installationscript on a fresh installation:

  • Centos 7.4 minimal on my 4 GByte RAM server
  • Configuration steps of Virtualmin all done.
  • Recheck of configuration all OK with 3 php versions:
    The following PHP versions are available : 5.4.16 (/bin/php-cgi), 7.0.10 (/opt/rh/rh-php70/root/usr/bin/php-cgi), 5.4 (mod_php)
    PHP-FPM support is available on this system.

I het setup 15 Virtual Servers (all Wordpress websites) and have all setup to PHP version 7.0

Now my question:
All websites are performing well and I decided to start a stress test with the ‘ab’-command.
The webserver was stressed and ‘ps aux | fgrep ‘php’’ showed a lot of ‘php-cgi’ processes (about 15) all consuming a lot of memory.
I want to limit the processes that are getting started.
I searched on Google and this forum, but I cannot find the answer.

Were can I setup the correct configuration for this limitation.
Should it be anywhere in the Virtual Hosts setting?
Or should I look for settings in the server itself (via Webmin or commandline)?

My configuration:
Operating system CentOS Linux 7.4.1708
Webmin version 1.870
Virtualmin version 6.02

I can choose the PHP version, but only between versions 7.0.1 and 5.4.16.
I cannot choose version 5.4 ???
And I can only choose the execution mode globally? At System settings -> Server templates (default) -> PHP options.
A cannot choose the execution mode for a single Virtual Server?

I would appreciate any help on this.

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