pfSense: Optimizing PHP-FPM for Long-Term Web UI Performance

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I’m sharing these PHP-FPM tweaks for pfSense publicly to solicit feedback and help anyone exploring similar optimizations. There may be more efficient methods or edge cases I haven’t covered. I welcome any suggestions, improvements, or alternative approaches. pfSense’s Web UI runs on PHP-FPM, and although the defaults work well out of the box, a few… continue reading.
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There appears to be some issues using the patch on pfSense Plus 24.11.

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Hi @DetectiveFoley

Thanks for reporting. I’ve removed that for now. Will restore corrected later. You can make the changes manually. I’ve reset my pfSense to factory and the changes survive. Will not survive version upgrades. But those should also come with PHP 8.3. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

What’s your use case?