Re: Slightly newer airport sleep bits for pmud

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Peter Cordes wrote:
> 
> 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.)

Okay, so what would be a good tradeoff between having unused modules removed
automatically and not cluttering the log too much?


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