On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Er, if the kernel autoprobes them, modprobe gets called with -k, which means > > that among other things, when it's not been in use it can be "autocleaned", > > ie rmmod -a'ing twice in some time frame will remove it. > > Thanks, can you please elaborate on the time frame? :)
I thought the "time" frame was just that the module hadn't been used again since the last rmmod -a. This is like a second-chance paging algorithm that pages out pages that haven't been used between runs of the page-marker. (I think this is how it works, and that there's no wall-clock time involved here.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
