preloading modules and apache::dbi

Hi,

I am totally new to mod perl (after 13+ years of building web applications on shared servers I now am developing on a dedicated box woo-hoo)

I have installed apache::dbi and set it to preload in the apache config file.  Here is what I think my problem might be.

I have a library I want to preload.  This library makes a database connection and assigns it to a variable that is exported so all programs can use this handle.

will this global handle db handle be a single handle amongst all apache processes, or will each process load this library on its own thus having a unique db handle for each httpd process?

sorry if this is incoherent.

Mike Cardeiro