Very old hack to run multiple php processes. Named "daksa" in translation from Latvian mean "Fork"

daksa.php

<?php

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s')."\n";

// filename to run 
$filename = "check_count.php";

// max processes
$processes = 8;//rand(0,1);
$total = 0;

// get all active server php processes, exclude grep search record
exec("ps auxwww|grep php|grep -v grep", $output);

// print_r($output);

// match required script and count how many are running
foreach($output as $out){
	if (strpos($out,$filename) !== false) {
		$total++;
	}
}

echo $total." processes\n";

# if running less then required, start new processes
if($total<$processes){
	run_proces($filename,($processes-$total));
}

# start multiple processes function
function run_proces($filename,$count=1){
	$done = 0;
	while($done<$count){
		exec("php /var/www/html/math/$filename > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &");
		echo "Runned another process \n";
		$done++;
		sleep(2);
	}
}