if you know lsmod...

[ascetic angel]

Could you please tell me, What does the "size" parameter in the output of lsmod command indicate?

Are you sure about it?

Thanks in advance!

[i92guboj]

As far as I know, it's the in-ram size of the module. The amount of space that the module image takes when it's loaded in ram.

lsmod just formats the contents of /proc/modules in a nice tabular format and displays it. The man page for proc doesn't tell any useful info about that file either, so I guess that to be 100% sure you would need to look at the proc related code in the kernel source tree.

[ascetic angel]

As far as I know, it's the in-ram size of the module. The amount of space that the module image takes when it's loaded in ram.

lsmod just formats the contents of /proc/modules in a nice tabular format and displays it. The man page for proc doesn't tell any useful info about that file either, so I guess that to be 100% sure you would need to look at the proc related code in the kernel source tree.

Thanks! I think, I'll do that.

[wildpossum]

"sudo modinfo modulename" may provide more information for you too.