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Zeroing freed memory

Zeroing freed memory

Posted Nov 13, 2008 22:45 UTC (Thu) by bdauvergne (subscriber, #6989)
In reply to: Zeroing freed memory by nix
Parent article: /dev/ksm: dynamic memory sharing

and there is still madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) to release the physical pages to the system.


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