> David Maynor <david.maynor@oit.gatech.edu> writes:
>
> > But is the 10% perf hit really gaining you anything, expect to quell
> > your paranoia. What is next, an encrypted /proc so that possible
> > attackers can't gain information about running processes?
>
> This is not about paranoia, this is about stolen notebooks.
>
> (And you can't easily add hundreds of megabytes to such systems
> usually.)
yeah, that's true, but on older ones (like my toshiba portege 3010 which
has the system maximum of 96MB ) you may not be able to afford the
performance hit either(pentium 266,dma mode0 or pio disk,430tx chipset
and all it's attendant memory performance issues with more than 64mb).
on a more modern unit (like my toshiba 2805 which has 384MB) the
performance hit probably isn't a big deal but I probably don't need swap
that much either.
joelja
>
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