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Won't OS just have a service to 0 out all the RAM, definitely on shutdown for security reasons, with a performance hit in time and write cycles on your sdd. Sam
by oneweekwonder 10y ago
Won't OS just have a service to 0 out all the RAM, definitely on shutdown for security reasons, with a performance hit in time and write cycles on your sdd. Same mechanism at boot?
- ori_b 10y agoThat assumes that the OS didn't crash. It also assumes that the data isn't valuable, in which case why not just use faster, cheaper ram? There are workarounds, like adding a layer of faster, cheaper ram, but then this starts to look like a big perf improvement in a rather traditional system.
- viraptor 10y agoAnd on startup, if anyone could have physical access to your hardware.