hamunaptra
Senior member
Ive been reading the book windows internals - freaking amazing btw....
A lot of question about memory is handled on x86 machines and computers have been answered and I more thoroughly understand it now.
One of the more interesting parts of the windows kernel is it has a thread that runs periodically to zero freed pages of system memory(RAM) ... before they can be used again. This is mainly a security feature.
Does linux do this as well? Or does it just free pages and then they are considered reusable....
Ive searched and cant seem to find a definite answer on this.
A lot of question about memory is handled on x86 machines and computers have been answered and I more thoroughly understand it now.
One of the more interesting parts of the windows kernel is it has a thread that runs periodically to zero freed pages of system memory(RAM) ... before they can be used again. This is mainly a security feature.
Does linux do this as well? Or does it just free pages and then they are considered reusable....
Ive searched and cant seem to find a definite answer on this.
