Re: Testers wanted: exorcised kmod.c: no more daemon!

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:12:56 +0200


Hi!

> Caveats:
> o To get automatic unloading of stale modules, you must
> put a line like the following in root's crontab entry:
>
> 0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a

Maybe this is completely dumb remark, but:

Should not modules be removed after they are inactive _for some time_?
You do not want module to be unloaded 1 second after it is not needed,
because it might be needed one second after this.

[BTW how does rmmod like modprobe running in paralel?]

Pavel

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