Re: [Tails-dev] Quicker memory erasure

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,
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