A lot of newrelic-daemon processes running

Issue

• A lot of newrelic-daemon processes running on the server related to the newrelic PHP extension.
• Extension itself is disabled on a global level

Environment

• CloudLinux OS
• alt-php

Solution

• Either disable the module for a particular user jdoe, for example for PHP 7.3.

  # selectorctl --interpreter=php --version=7.3 --user=jdoe --disable-user-extensions newrelic

• For all users and PHP versions

  # find /var/cagefs -name alt_php.ini | xargs grep -H  newrelic.so | cut -f 5,8 -d '/' | sed -E 's@/@ @g;s@alt-php@@g' | sed ':a;s/ \([0-9]\)\([0-9]\)/ \1.\2/;ta' | while read a b; do echo "User $a"; selectorctl --interpreter=php --version=$b --user=$a --disable-user-extensions newrelic; done

Cause

The module is enabled for many users.