From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Aug 5 15:02:43 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3781055288 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2018 15:02:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gal.iecc.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE136925CB for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2018 15:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 36771 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2018 15:02:41 -0000 Received: from ary.qy ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) by imap.iecc.com ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) with ESMTP via TCP6; 05 Aug 2018 15:02:41 -0000 Received: by ary.qy (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1E186200349F8E; Sun, 5 Aug 2018 11:02:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: 5 Aug 2018 11:02:40 -0400 Message-Id: <20180805150241.1E186200349F8E@ary.qy> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: thor@irk.ru Subject: Re: Erase memory on shutdown In-Reply-To: Organization: Taughannock Networks X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 15:02:43 -0000 In article you write: >Hello! > >Just one paranoid question: How to cause FreeBSD to zero all RAM during >shutdown? On modern computers, turning the power off should do the trick.