Systemctl reload php-fpm.service

[gerry666uk]

@linuxlover

Is this “graceful reload of all workers” killing all the current wokers and creating new processes?

I think it will wait for a while, but it could be very confusing if you reload php-fpm without taking the web server into account. I stop apache first, then stop php-fpm, then start in reverse order. Application design makes a difference; php makes sense for requests that run quickly and then finish, but some applications have long running php scripts that can cause all kinds of problems, e.g. phpmyadmin has a script to import a database that can run for ages.