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From: andyfraser31@hotmail.com (Andy Fraser)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Removing modules
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:21:26 +0000
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Mark Carter  wrote:

> 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?

modprobe -l lists all the modules available to the currently running
kernel. lsmod lists the modules currently being used.

-- 
Andy.
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