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Re: NYT Article on Groat Spy Case
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Tue Apr 21 17:08:08 1998
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:29:33 -0400
From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
CC: reinhold@world.std.com, cryptography@c2.net
Phil Karn wrote:
> running on modern operating systems). (Side question: does Linux or
> BSD have a page-lock system call yet?)
>
I don't know about BSD, but Linux doesn't have to have a swap device
configured at all. With 64Mb of memory on my laptop, I just do without.
Sensitive in-core data is never written out, and the system performs pretty
good as well!
-Jeff
