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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Perrin Harkins <ph...@gmail.com> on 2009/07/31 16:57:02 UTC

Re: Apache2::Resource - What happens when the resource limit is consumed by the process

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Shibi NS<sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For example I sets the RSS  to 70 M , but due to some bugs one of the
> process requires 80 M how does the systems handles it ?

The process will die.  Setting resource limits is meant to be a safety
measure to prevent runaway code from crashing your whole server.  If
you just want to manage the size of your processes, use
Apache::SizeLimit instead.

- Perrin