diff --git a/docs/content/docs/7.reference/1.environment-variable-specification.md b/docs/content/docs/7.reference/1.environment-variable-specification.md
index 597464177..510ad729d 100644
--- a/docs/content/docs/7.reference/1.environment-variable-specification.md
+++ b/docs/content/docs/7.reference/1.environment-variable-specification.md
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ We like to customize our images on a per app basis using environment variables.
`PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS`
*Default: "3"*|The desired maximum number of idle server processes. Used only when pm is set to dynamic. (Official docs)|fpm*
`PHP_FPM_PM_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS`
*Default: "1"*|The desired minimum number of idle server processes. Used only when pm is set to dynamic. (Official docs)|fpm*
`PHP_FPM_PM_START_SERVERS`
*Default: "2"*|The number of child processes created on startup. Used only when pm is set to dynamic. (Official docs)|fpm*
+`PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_REQUESTS`
*Default: "0"*|The number of requests each child process should execute before respawning. This can be useful to work around memory leaks in 3rd party libraries. (Official docs)|fpm*
`PHP_FPM_POOL_NAME`
*Default: "www"*|Set the name of your PHP-FPM pool (helpful when running multiple sites on a single server).|fpm*
`PHP_FPM_PROCESS_CONTROL_TIMEOUT`
*Default: "10s"*|Set the timeout for the process control commands. (Official docs)|fpm*
`PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME`
*Default: "99"*|Set the maximum time in seconds a script is allowed to run before it is terminated by the parser. (Official docs)|all
diff --git a/src/php-fpm.d/usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/docker-php-serversideup-pool.conf b/src/php-fpm.d/usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/docker-php-serversideup-pool.conf
index e8d3e0cff..10e74a3e2 100644
--- a/src/php-fpm.d/usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/docker-php-serversideup-pool.conf
+++ b/src/php-fpm.d/usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/docker-php-serversideup-pool.conf
@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ pm.min_spare_servers = ${PHP_FPM_PM_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS}
; Note: Mandatory when pm is set to 'dynamic'
pm.max_spare_servers = ${PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS}
+; The number of requests each child process should execute before respawning.
+; This can be useful to work around memory leaks in 3rd party libraries. For
+; endless request processing specify '0'. Equivalent to PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS.
+pm.max_requests = ${PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_REQUESTS}
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; Healthcheck settings
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diff --git a/src/variations/fpm-apache/Dockerfile b/src/variations/fpm-apache/Dockerfile
index e6c4cdcf3..5a07f5c35 100644
--- a/src/variations/fpm-apache/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/variations/fpm-apache/Dockerfile
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ ENV APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www/html/public \
PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS="3" \
PHP_FPM_PM_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS="1" \
PHP_FPM_PM_START_SERVERS="2" \
+ PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_REQUESTS="0" \
PHP_FPM_POOL_NAME="www" \
PHP_FPM_PROCESS_CONTROL_TIMEOUT="10s" \
PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME="99" \
diff --git a/src/variations/fpm-nginx/Dockerfile b/src/variations/fpm-nginx/Dockerfile
index a8197b6df..034b008d7 100644
--- a/src/variations/fpm-nginx/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/variations/fpm-nginx/Dockerfile
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ ENV APP_BASE_DIR=/var/www/html \
PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS="3" \
PHP_FPM_PM_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS="1" \
PHP_FPM_PM_START_SERVERS="2" \
+ PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_REQUESTS="0" \
PHP_FPM_POOL_NAME="www" \
PHP_FPM_PROCESS_CONTROL_TIMEOUT="10s" \
PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME="99" \
diff --git a/src/variations/fpm/Dockerfile b/src/variations/fpm/Dockerfile
index e97261604..f6771af72 100644
--- a/src/variations/fpm/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/variations/fpm/Dockerfile
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ ENV APP_BASE_DIR=/var/www/html \
PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS="3" \
PHP_FPM_PM_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS="1" \
PHP_FPM_PM_START_SERVERS="2" \
+ PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_REQUESTS="0" \
PHP_FPM_POOL_NAME="www" \
PHP_FPM_PROCESS_CONTROL_TIMEOUT="10s" \
PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME="99" \