Thursday, 22 September 2011

10.7: Disable Secure Virtual Memory

At least in the MacBooks the Secure (encrypted) Virtual Memory is enabled by default. The option to disable it has been removed from the Security & Privacy General preference panel. One may check if it is enabled by running in Terminal the following command:
 $ sysctl vm.swapusage vm.swapusage: total = 64.00M  used = 0.00M  free = 64.00M  (encrypted) 
To disable it from Terminal on previous OS X versions one could issue the command
 $ sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.virtualMemory UseEncryptedSwap -boolean no 
But that doesn't work anymore. It seems that 'UseEncryptedSwap' has been ...

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