Peter Cordes wrote: > > 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.)
Okay, so what would be a good tradeoff between having unused modules removed automatically and not cluttering the log too much? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
