Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Stupidification of GNU/Linux Users Date: 16 May 2026 00:48:08 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <18ae97fc33e48f9d$12583$2923323$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <6a078a54$0$7094$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net TRhxILH6btxWtre9CU+hXgbIcq5oPxTTJvoFv+ui/FwgN3Sdxn Cancel-Lock: sha1:3oukgXJOzuIqaIE3TiWgAkSgX3U= sha256:ObDojgaJHo8sqXMpHbNOfgLA4AcSweamTKPOJFsJH0Y= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86723 On 15 May 2026 21:04:20 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > You just proved, once again that you know nothing about kernel. The > purpose of a module is to be loaded only if needed. So if you don't need > it, it's not loaded and no ressource is wasted. And if you need it, it's > loaded because it's available. So it's the perfect world: everything > available without the bloat part. lsmod shows many modules with 0 in the 'used by' column. kvm_intel or kvm_amd appear with a 1 even though a VM is not in use. It actually seems to interfere with VirtualBox and needs to be blacklisted if you want a permanent fix. lsmod documentation is sparse so I don't know the implications of a module that is not use by anything.