Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-03 Thread Alan Cox
You're sure about that? What evidence do you offer? Can you point to auto-scrub code paths in all the library APIs for freeing memory? We actually don't wipe memory on free, but on allocate. That has performance wins. Some user space does go to the trouble of wiping things like crypto keys once

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-02 Thread Patrick Lists
On 11/02/2011 02:34 AM, Linda McLeod wrote: How does Fedora clean its RAM..? On Monday morning before the start of the week it lets out the Gnomes who then diligently start to do some serious housecleaning. There's Spidey Gnome who climbs up the walls to get to those difficult to reach places

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2011-11-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On 02/11/11 01:34, Linda McLeod wrote: By putting it on the lamb, Until it rains for a week or two. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 18:34:15 -0700,  Linda McLeod lindavald...@fastmail.fm wrote: How does Fedora clean its RAM..? Does the system dump what's on unused RAM?..  Does it wait till reboot..? How does it work..? How

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com said: On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: Unprivileged users don't have access to the previous contents of ram allocated to their processes. You're sure about that? What evidence do you offer? Can you

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/02/2011 07:04 PM, Joel Rees wrote: You're sure about that? What evidence do you offer? Can you point to auto-scrub code paths in all the library APIs for freeing memory? Unless the next program allocates RAM and reads from it without first writing to it, what difference does it make?

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-02 Thread David Quigley
On 11/02/2011 22:13, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com said: On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: Unprivileged users don't have access to the previous contents of ram allocated to their processes. You're sure about

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us said: On 11/02/2011 07:04 PM, Joel Rees wrote: You're sure about that? What evidence do you offer? Can you point to auto-scrub code paths in all the library APIs for freeing memory? Unless the next program allocates RAM and reads from it without

How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-01 Thread Linda McLeod
How does Fedora clean its RAM..? Does the system dump what's on unused RAM?.. Does it wait till reboot..? How does it work..? How can the system be bumped-up to the next evolution of RAM-processing..? Is there, or can there be, a continuous wiping-cleaner that instantly cleans RAM the moment

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 18:34:15 -0700, Linda McLeod lindavald...@fastmail.fm wrote: How does Fedora clean its RAM..? Does the system dump what's on unused RAM?.. Does it wait till reboot..? How does it work..? How can the system be bumped-up to the next evolution of RAM-processing

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Linda McLeod writes: How does Fedora clean its RAM..? Using an extra-duty cycle, with bleach, and a second rinse. pgpaOItPxRTOA.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: How does Fedora clean its RAM..?

2011-11-01 Thread g
On 11/02/2011 01:34 AM, Linda McLeod wrote: How does Fedora clean its RAM..? with a RAM brush. 8-D really, what are you considering as clean it's ram? as in setting ram to all zeros, or do you mean when 'ram buffer' files with programs/data and a newly started program needs ram, and inactive