* Made the FCGI process variables configurable in the

  /etc/default/php-cgi file.

README.org

@@ -50,12 +50,14 @@
 
    6. You can tune the =FastCGI= parameters =PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN= and 
       =PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS= to whatever values work best for you.
+      They're defined in the =/etc/default/php-cgi= file.
 
 ** PHP FPM
 
    If you're using the [[http://php-fpm.org][PHP FPM]] (FastCGI Process Manager) the script
    can be used almost verbatim. Just change the value of =DAEMON= to
-   =php-fpm= and you're done.
+   =php-fpm= and you're done. Note that a lot of niceties like
+   reloading of the configuration are missing. 
 
 ** Security & Trust
 

default/php-cgi

@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@
 ## Whether the php cgi daemon should receive incoming requests using
 ## Unix sockets or Internet Sockets. The default is Unix sockets.
 USE_UNIX=1
+
+## The PHP fcgi control parameters.
+PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=4
+PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000

php-cgi

@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ USER=www-data
 GROUP=www-data
 
 ## FastCGI specific parameters.
-PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=15
-PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000
+PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=${PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN-6}
+PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=${PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS-1000}
 
 ## The arguments to pass to the php cgi program.
 DAEMON_OPTIONS="- USER=$USER GROUP=$GROUP PATH=/usr/bin PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=$PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=$PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS"