From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SPhTB-0004Xf-Up for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 21:52:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 174DDE084E; Wed, 2 May 2012 21:52:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157EFE07B7 for ; Wed, 2 May 2012 21:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B831B403D for ; Wed, 2 May 2012 21:50:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.154 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.154 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.144, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hOY2mR65TUgU for ; Wed, 2 May 2012 21:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFFA31B402D for ; Wed, 2 May 2012 21:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SPhRL-0004Mm-P4 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 23:50:27 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-191-131.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.191.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 May 2012 23:50:27 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-191-131.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 May 2012 23:50:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Any experience with swapfiles? Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 14:50:18 -0700 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-191-131.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 713f2930-2bde-4940-8476-657f8ba8a13e X-Archives-Hash: 09361b6a83d02368efe3b0673c6bf30f On 05/02/2012 01:58 PM, Simon wrote: > Except for issue pointed out by Paul about hibernation That's an interesting point, and the reason for the problem is definitely not obvious to me. Anyone know the technical details? > As for security, having a swap is less > secure than having none: a malicious persion could extract > information from programs memory which was swapped BTW, man mkswap says nothing about proper file permissions for a swapfile. I'm guessing that only root should be able to read the file?