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

[Rob Bloodgood]

> > because then all of your hard work before goes RIGHT out the window,
> > and I'm talking about a 10-15 MB difference between JUST FINE and
> > DEATH SPIRAL, because we've now just crossed that horrible, horrible
> > threshold of (say it quietly now) swapping! <shudder>
>
> That won't happen if you use a size limit and MaxClients.  The worst that
> can happen is processes will be killed too quickly, which will drive
> the load up.  Yes, that would be bad, but probably not as bad as swapping.

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?