Hi all, Suppose that i am having a module mymod.o of 10MB size. My doubt is - 1) can i delete the file mymod.o after loading the module i.e after insmod mymod.o (Actually i deleted it and used the module by my user process without any problem.. but not sure whether it is right to do so) 2) I see that the /proc/meminfo details the increase in used memory by ~10MB (almost the same size as of the mymod.o file )after loading the module. With this observation, can i assume that the kernel has made a copy of the mymod.o and hence will not refer the deleted file later. I am aware of demand paging concept in kernel but have no idea whether it will play a role in loadable modules. Can any one plz explain this with respect to executables & loadable modules.(If it is different for both cases) Also Plz refer some literature or links for memory usage Thanks in advance Sri -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
