intrigeri: > Hi, > > Morosko wrote (31 Mar 2016 09:30:03 GMT) : >> today I used tails for the first time. Amazing work! But the shutdown took >> quite >> a while.. I was running it on my laptop with 16 gigs of ram. Erasing all >> this seems >> pretty time waisting to me. > > How long does it take for you? > >> Wouldn't it be better to log all used memory addresses >> and clear only those which really were used? > > We would need to log all memory addresses that have ever been used > during a Tails session. Does the Linux kernel provide ways to do so > without impacting performance too much? > > Cheers, >
Isn't RAM write speed in the range of 20GB/s? If the memory wiping occured in real mode at the end of computer shutdown without all that paging stuff, 16gigs would be done in under a second. _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
