Re: Slightly newer airport sleep bits for pmud

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > Er, if the kernel autoprobes them, modprobe gets called with -k, which means
> > that among other things, when it's not been in use it can be "autocleaned",
> > ie rmmod -a'ing twice in some time frame will remove it.
> 
> Thanks, can you please elaborate on the time frame? :)

 I thought the "time" frame was just that the module hadn't been used
again since the last rmmod -a.  This is like a second-chance paging
algorithm that pages out pages that haven't been used between runs of
the page-marker.  (I think this is how it works, and that there's no
wall-clock time involved here.)


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