Re: module autoclean not working

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:58:27 +0000


On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 12:51:45PM -0600, Taral wrote:

> Ever since I upgraded to the 2.2.x kernels, modules are not autocleaning. I
> don't run kerneld (as recommended), so I was wondering if kmod was supposed to
> do it.

No.

>From Documentation/kmod.txt:

"To periodically unload unused modules, put something like the following
in root's crontab entry:

0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a"

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one's contributions to computer science."  -- Donald E. Knuth, TAoCP vol 3

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