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One locks memory to keep it from being swapped to disk. You can imagine if you have sensitive data, you want to keep it as ephemeral as possible. Do even secur
by richard_todd 8y ago
One locks memory to keep it from being swapped to disk. You can imagine if you have sensitive data, you want to keep it as ephemeral as possible. Do even security-focused go programs typically lock _all_ of their virtual memory, or just the sensitive pages? I don’t know. But if a bunch of programs hogged hundreds of megabytes of unused RAM each, that’s the problem alluded to on low resource systems.