The way LVE "limits" work in relation to php memory_limit, and a few other ?s

[chris.gilroy]

Alright, ultimately what Im looking to do is easily change customers php.ini (I was using PHP.ini Manager, but changing to cageFS it appears to break that plugin?) so my question if I allow customers (through PHP selector) to change memory_limit to say 512mb how does LVE "work" with that?

How does LVE memory "limits" interact with php.ini memory_limit? If I have the LVE setup to only allow 200mb and php.ini to allow 512mb once the site in question hits 200mb of total PHP memory usage it would "throttle"/cut/kill the site until it goes below 200mb again?

[iseletsk]

LVE limits are more important then any other limits.
If you have LVE limit set to 256, and customers sets memory_limit at 512.... LVE limits will be enforced
More then that, LVE limits work on group of processes, while memory limits work on individual process level
In both cases -- it would kill the process.