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SubjectRe: Testers wanted: exorcised kmod.c: no more daemon!
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jan Gyselinck wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> How about the overhead from cron? I mean, each time it runs rmmod, it
> also runs a shell.... (and I think, I hope :), the kernel doesn't do that)
> I didn't look at the code, but does the kernel also do 'rmmod -a' if there
> are no unused modules?? (I hope it doens't do that either...)
This was what the kmod introduced in 2.1.90 was doing, and I have a strong
suspicion (though I have to check the kerneld code) that kerneld did much
the same. As has been mentioned before (I believe by Adam), writing a
program that sits in the background, wakes up every x seconds, and
autocleans the modules is _very_ trivial. This should probably go into
the next modutils. I'll submit patches if no one else does first.

>
> We don't all have CPU-power to waste ...
This is all a very relative thing. Autoloading of modules saves you
memory at the cost of a small CPU & IO load every once in a while. If you
can't deal with that, compile a kernel with no modules.

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