diff --git a/package/php/php-fpm.conf b/package/php/php-fpm.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b75a58fefc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/php/php-fpm.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[www]
+# Only start children when there are requests to be processed
+pm = ondemand
+# Terminate them again after there haven't been any for 2 minutes
+pm.process_idle_timeout = 120s
+# Maximum number of children processing PHP requests concurrently
+pm.max_children = 5
+
+listen = /var/run/php-fpm.sock
+listen.owner = www-data
+listen.group = www-data
+user = www-data
+group = www-data
+
diff --git a/package/php/php.mk b/package/php/php.mk
index 4c65c35f71..3b9a1176b8 100644
--- a/package/php/php.mk
+++ b/package/php/php.mk
@@ -264,6 +264,14 @@ define PHP_INSTALL_INIT_SYSTEMD
 	ln -fs ../../../../usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service \
 		$(TARGET_DIR)/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/php-fpm.service
 endef
+
+define PHP_INSTALL_FPM_CONF
+	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0644 package/php/php-fpm.conf \
+		$(TARGET_DIR)/etc/php-fpm.conf
+	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/php-fpm.conf.default
+endef
+
+PHP_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += PHP_INSTALL_FPM_CONF
 endif
 
 define PHP_EXTENSIONS_FIXUP