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Re: unloading unnecessary modules



Hello,

Mag Gam a écrit :
> 
> I was told by an engineer that unloading unnecessary
> modules will improve performance in the system. My question(s) are: is
> this true?

I see only one reason why unloading unnecessary kernel modules would
improve system performances : it frees some memory which can be used for
applications, caches or buffers and save some I/O. But IMO the impact is
negligible on modern systems with gigabytes of RAM.


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