---
name: "passenger-status"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "passenger"
version: "6.0.26+ds-1.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/passenger-status"
---

# passenger-status(8)

inspect Phusion Passenger's internal status

## 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 locate 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 instance 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 specified 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)](/passenger-memory-stats/8.md), [ps(1)](/ps/1.md), [top(1)](/top/1.md)

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).