Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?=
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 09:36 -0800, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: > > > Firewire and CDROM. They are probably loaded by hotplug. > > Firewire I could understand, but the CD drive is built-in to > the machine, so it's not like it can be hot-(un)plugged.

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: So you load it in /etc/modules in case you need to use a USB keyboard. OK. So if I wanted to rebuild a kernel without hotplug, I just unset CONFIG_HOTPLUG ? Well if you just want to disable the functionality then: ]$ apt-get remo

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: So you load it in /etc/modules in case you need to use a USB keyboard. OK. So if I wanted to rebuild a kernel without hotplug, I just unset CONFIG_HOTPLUG ? Otherwise use PS2 or USB to PS2 adapter. Most servers have some sort of serial console as

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: Why would USB be important on a server? In (the hopefully rare) case when I need to plug in a USB keyboard to be on console. So you load it in /etc/modules in case you need to use a USB keyboard. Otherwise use PS2 or USB to PS2 ad

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: Why would USB be important on a server? In (the hopefully rare) case when I need to plug in a USB keyboard to be on console. - Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: Yes but you aren't helping anything by unloading the module for it. It isn't like you are going to boost system performance by unloading the module for the cdrom. That's the kind of information I was looking for; thanks. If it bugs yo

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: Yes but you aren't helping anything by unloading the module for it. It isn't like you are going to boost system performance by unloading the module for the cdrom. That's the kind of information I was looking for; thanks. If it bugs you then just uninstall

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: Firewire and CDROM. They are probably loaded by hotplug. Firewire I could understand, but the CD drive is built-in to the machine, so it's not like it can be hot-(un)plugged. The device can't but the driver can. I assume you use

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: Firewire and CDROM. They are probably loaded by hotplug. Firewire I could understand, but the CD drive is built-in to the machine, so it's not like it can be hot-(un)plugged. I assume you use your CDROM? Just because they currently don't have a ref

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
Paul J. Lucas wrote: Why is it the case that the modules: eth1394 ohci1394 ieee1394 ide_cd cdrom are automatically loaded? Nothing uses them and they're not listed explicitly in /etc/modules. I assume unloading them with rmmod frees memory (?). - Paul Firewire and CDRO

Re: unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Moritz Armingeon
On 08:34 Sun 06 Mar , Paul J. Lucas wrote: > Why is it the case that the modules: > > eth1394 ohci1394 ieee1394 ide_cd cdrom > > are automatically loaded? Nothing uses them and they're not > listed explicitly in /etc/modules. You are using hotplug, right? pg

unnecessary loaded modules

2005-03-06 Thread Paul J. Lucas
Why is it the case that the modules: eth1394 ohci1394 ieee1394 ide_cd cdrom are automatically loaded? Nothing uses them and they're not listed explicitly in /etc/modules. I assume unloading them with rmmod frees memory (?). - Paul -- To UNSUB