On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 07:54:09PM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote: > Another thing that I found odd while playing with that stuff is that > some module can be auto;atically unloaded but I'm not quite sure why. > The reason why it came up here is that when asked for bsdcomp, pppd will > try deflate instead if it is available, so it ends up getting both > modules loaded. However, the reference count on bsdcomp drops to 0 > almost immediately as it replaced by deflate, and it does get unloaded. > But when the refcount on deflate drops to 0 later after the ppp session > is ended, it doesn't get unloaded. I recall a commit a week or so ago that tried to auto-unload each module 10s after it was loaded. Presumably this is intended to clean up after a session of intense probing that may cause lots of modules to be loaded that aren't really needed. -- Dan.
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