RE: Apache::SizeLimit for unshared RAM ???

[Perrin Harkins]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Rob Bloodgood wrote:
> OK, so my next question about per-process size limits is this:
> Is it a hard limit???
> 
> As in,
> what if I alloc 10MB/per and every now & then my one of my processes spikes
> to a (not unreasonable) 11MB?  Will it be nuked in mid process?  Or just
> instructed to die at the end of the current request?

It's not a hard limit, and I actually only have it check on every other
request.  We do use hard limits with BSD::Resource to set maximums on CPU
and RAM, in case something goes totally out of control.  That's just a
safety though.

- Perrin