Re: what kernel modules am I really using?
On 2006-03-24, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) <sumo.wrestler.0rj82m+no.spam.abuse@earthlink.net> wrote:
> The third column of lsmod's output tells you if a module is being used.
> Take a look in /proc to find out what process is using a particular module.
>
> Get info. about the lsmod command and proc filesystem;
> $ man lsmod
> $ man 5 proc
man lsmod.modutils says "The format is name, size, use count, list of
referring modules." So for the lsmod output
cdrom 33568 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 15936 7
cdrom is loaded because the ide_cd module requires it, right? But
what exactly does "use count" mean -- the number of what kinds of
things that require a particular module? In this case, ide_disk is
loaded and used by 7 things which are not other modules.
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Thanks,
Adam
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