Re: rmmod -a does not unload unused modules in 2.2.x

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:00:07 +1100

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On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:08:44 +0200,
"Andrew V. Samoilov" <sav@bcs.zp.ua> wrote:
>Some time ago here was a discussion about kerneld and Linux 2.2.x kernels.
>I remember it was proposed to use a 'rmmod -a' from cron to unload unused
>modules. But it doesn't work at least for 2.2.10 and 2.2.13 kernels.

It does for me. rmmod -a only gets rid of modules marked as autoclean,
the modules have to be loaded with modprobe -k or insmod -k before
rmmod -a will remove them. Does lsmod say autoclean against these
modules?

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