On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 07:04:05PM +0200, Ian Brown wrote: > I had noticed that when runing "lsmod" we have a titled which is named > "used by". > Sometimes the number of the modules which use this module appear with > their names; > Sometimes, however, only the number of the modules which use this module appear > without the names; for example: with ipv6: > > lsmod > Module Size Used by > ... > ... > ipv6 307272 23 Used by 23 processes. > but with jbd, we have: > jbd 64817 1 ext3 Used by a single kernel module called "ext3". > > and sometimes we have a large number > of modules which use this module, but only few are specified. For example, > > sunrpc 168009 25 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl > > > Any idea why is it so ? when does the name of the module > appear and when does it not appear ? It appears when the user is a module and not when the user is a process. Erik -- Erik Mouw -- mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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