# man > passenger-status(8)

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## NAME
       passenger-status - inspect Phusion Passenger's internal status

## SYNOPSIS
       **passenger-status** [_pid_]

## DESCRIPTION
       **passenger-status** looks at the current status of a Phusion Passenger installation. It will lo‐
       cate Phusion Passenger automatically if it is running and will give you a list  of  instances
       if  there  is  more  than one Phusion Passenger instance running. You can then select the in‐
       stance by specifying the relevant PID on the command line.

       The _general_ _information_ section shows the following details:

       max    The maximum number of application instances that Phusion Passenger  will  spawn.  This
              equals the value given for _PassengerMaxPoolSize_ in the configuration.

       count  The  number  of  application  instances that are currently alive. This value is always
              less than or equal to _max_.

       active The number of application instances that are currently processing requests. This value
              is always less than or equal to _count_.

       inactive
              The  number  of application instances that are currently not processing requests, i.e.
              are idle. Idle application instances will be shutdown after a while, as can be  speci‐
              fied  with  _PassengerPoolIdleTime_  in  the configuration. The value of _inactive_ equals
              _count_ - _active_.

       The _applications_ section shows each application instance, which directory it belongs to.  The
       _sessions_  field  shows how many HTTP client are currently being processed by that application
       instance.

## OPTIONS
       **pid**    The process ID of the Phusion Passenger instance you want to look at

## SEE ALSO
       [passenger-memory-stats(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/passenger-memory-stats/8/markdown), [ps(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ps/1/markdown), [top(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/top/1/markdown)

       User guide at <https://www.phusionpassenger.com/documentation_and_support>

## AUTHOR
       Phusion Passenger is written by Phusion (<http://www.phusion.nl>)

       This manual page was written by Neil Wilson <<neil@brightbox.co.uk>>  for  the  Ubuntu  project
       (but may be used by others).



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