From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 0:14:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.uni-bielefeld.de (mail.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.4.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B733037B864 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 00:14:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfischer@Techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from frolic.no-support.loc (ppp36-242.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de) by mail.uni-bielefeld.de (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.05.24.18.28.p7) with ESMTP id <0FVR00DIOW3X84@mail.uni-bielefeld.de> for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:14:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from bjoern@localhost) by frolic.no-support.loc (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA02135 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 06 Jun 2000 21:53:17 +0200 (CEST envelope-from bjoern) Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 21:53:17 +0200 From: Bjoern Fischer Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD In-reply-to: <200006052351.QAA00547@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:51:28PM -0700 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20000606215317.A1984@frolic.no-support.loc> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <393C11B4.D40B9EBD@vangelderen.org> <200006052351.QAA00547@mass.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:51:28PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: [...] > TBH, unloading an idle module is basically a waste of time. Modules are,= =20 > on the whole, so small that the savings are entirely outweighed by the=20 > unnecessary complexity. What is won by unloading a module anyway? Memory the module previously allocated will be freed? Hmm, do the following several times (n*100, n*1000): hostname# kldload cd9660; kldunload cd9660 More and more wired memory will be allocated but not freed. If you perform this cycle too many times, the machine will lock up or reboot. Bj=F6rn --=20 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS d--(+) s++: a- C+++(-) UB++++OSI++++$ P+++(-) L---(++) !E W- N+ o>+ K- !w !O !M !V PS++ PE- PGP++ t+++ !5 X++ tv- b+++ D++ G e+ h-- y+=20 ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message