Re: marching through all physical memory in software

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 20:38 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> You can do the scrubbing today by echo reboot > /sys/power/disk; echo
> disk > /sys/power/state :-)... or using uswsusp APIs.

That won't work. The RAM retains it's contents across a reboot, and even
for a little while after powering off.

Regards,

Nigel

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