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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.   
      
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