Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:26:26 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: mergemem (http://das.ist.org/mergemem/) |
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van Heusden, Folkert wrote: > Today I found a webpage on mergemem (http://das.ist.org/mergemem/). > It's goal is going trough all physical pages and merging > all identical ones to free-up memory. > Any chance this feature will be integrated in a main- > stream kernel?
There was a short discussion a while ago. There are security issues: it's possible to guess the contents of a page that you shouldn't be able to see by whether the kernel merges that page with others.
-- Jamie
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