Re: Encrypted Swap

Dan Hollis (goemon@anime.net)
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:05:06 -0700 (PDT)


On 17 Aug 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Clearing memory on most machines takes a 1s or less. Think of memory
> fill rates at the 800MB/s level. Most BIOS's seem to clear some of
> the memory but I haven't read their code to see what they are doing.

Ive measured rates far lower than that, at least for SDRAM.

http://bani.anime.net/memspeed/

-Dan

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