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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:49:46 +0000
From: Mark Carter 
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I did
 modprobe -l | wc -l
and it appears that I have 1860 modules running. Most of this is easy to 
see as guff.

Is there much point in disabling some useless modules? Can I expect a 
significantly faster system using significantly less memory?
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