Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

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From
Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Date
5 Jun 2000 12:13:53
Subject
Re: kerneld for FreeBSD
Message-ID
200006051916.MAA00466@mass.cdrom.com

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> Mike Smith wrote:
> [...]
> > This is, IMO, a good idea. I certainly don't want some smartass daemon
> > unloading a module just because it thinks it should. 8)
>
> You can always patch kldunload and have cron periodically execute a
> kldunload --unused-modules
> Or?

I have no faith at all any metric other than one determined by the module
itself to indicate "unuse", and if a module wants to unload itself due to
"unuse", it can already do so. I don't want or need a daemon to do this.

--
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com




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