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Update: Do not use this config for php.  Instead use php-fpm with xcache or apc.

To configure Nginx to load balance multiple FastCgi servers use this type of configuration:

upstream servercom {
server 127.0.0.1:44440;
server 127.0.0.1:44441;
server 127.0.0.1:44442;
server 127.0.0.1:44443;
server 127.0.0.1:44444;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass servercom;
fastcgi_index stream.app;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/htdocs$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
}

If you’re using spawn-fcgi from lighttpd consider replacing it with php-fpm.