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    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "passenger-status",
    "section": "8",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/passenger-status/8/json",
    "generated": "2026-10-04T21:04:37Z",
    "synopsis": "passenger-status [pid]",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "passenger-status - inspect Phusion Passenger's internal status\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "passenger-status [pid]\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "passenger-status looks at the current status of a Phusion Passenger installation. It will lo‐\ncate  Phusion  Passenger automatically if it is running and will give you a list of instances\nif there is more than one Phusion Passenger instance running. You can  then  select  the  in‐\nstance by specifying the relevant PID on the command line.\n\nThe general information section shows the following details:\n\nmax    The  maximum  number  of application instances that Phusion Passenger will spawn. This\nequals the value given for PassengerMaxPoolSize in the configuration.\n\ncount  The number of application instances that are currently alive.  This  value  is  always\nless than or equal to max.\n\nactive The number of application instances that are currently processing requests. This value\nis always less than or equal to count.\n\ninactive\nThe  number  of application instances that are currently not processing requests, i.e.\nare idle. Idle application instances will be shutdown after a while, as can be  speci‐\nfied  with  PassengerPoolIdleTime  in  the configuration. The value of inactive equals\ncount - active.\n\nThe applications section shows each application instance, which directory it belongs to.  The\nsessions  field  shows how many HTTP client are currently being processed by that application\ninstance.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "OPTIONS": {
            "content": "pid    The process ID of the Phusion Passenger instance you want to look at\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "passenger-memory-stats(8), ps(1), top(1)\n\nUser guide at https://www.phusionpassenger.com/documentationandsupport\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHOR": {
            "content": "Phusion Passenger is written by Phusion (http://www.phusion.nl)\n\nThis manual page was written by Neil Wilson <neil@brightbox.co.uk>  for  the  Ubuntu  project\n(but may be used by others).\n\nPhusion Passenger                                2.0                             passenger-status(8)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "passenger-status - inspect Phusion Passenger's internal status",
    "flags": [],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "passenger-memory-stats",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/passenger-memory-stats/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "ps",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ps/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "top",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/top/1/json"
        }
    ]
}