From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 20:40:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D092837B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:40:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BDD43E72 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.26.254.93]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:40:18 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 0BF72BA05; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:40:02 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Holt Grendal , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unloading Kernel Modules Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:40:02 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020713023341.71837.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020713023341.71837.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020713034002.0BF72BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 12 July 2002 10:33 pm, Holt Grendal wrote: | Hi, | | My kernal has these modules loaded: | > kldstat | | Id Refs Address Size Name | 1 3 0xc0100000 1bb548 kernel | 2 1 0xc5b8d000 14000 linux.ko That's probably because you enabled linux emulation way back when you installed the system, and you have this in your /etc/rc.conf: linux_enable="YES" | 7 1 0xc7bee000 3000 vn.ko Are you using a vn device? That ones not on my system so I'd wager that you are using vn, in which case you need it. | | I am unsure how they got there.. | | Is it safe to Unload them or will this Crash the system? If it's unsafe to unload them, the kernel should refuse your request to do so, and kldunload will complain, so there's no harm in trying. WHy would you want? Between the two of them they are taking up a whooping total of 92k. That was a big deal when memory was counted in k, but most peole now have a least 64M of RAM, and frequently more. At 64M of RAM, these modules are chewing up 0.l4% of your memory. Does it really matter what happens to the last 0.14% of your memory? | | tia | | holt | | | __________________________________________________ | Do You Yahoo!? | Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes | http://autos.yahoo.com | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message