Hello,

I have a laptop that was given to me to use for work. I do not have many funds right now, so at home I boot Knoppix on the notebook.

For some reason I feel like my company might take a peek at the remaining data left in memory on bootup. So my question is: how can I clear the linux system memory?

Is there any command line tools that might help me do this?

I have been thinking that I increase the heap size available to Java applications, then writing a Java application that will create an array the size of the free memory, and then setting the entire array to null or something.

However, this will require that I copy the file from some networked location, compile it locally, etc. I feel like I'm running through a lot of hoops.

Is there any easier way?

Thanks for any tips.

See THC's secure-delete at http://www.thc.org/releases.php

There's smem and sswap.

Wow that's great! The application looks like it is _exactly_ what I am looking for. Thanks for your suggestion!

Depending on how much RAM your notebook has, and whether or not you configure a swap file, Knoppix may not leave any tracks at all on the drive. If you have lots of RAM, you may not need to configure a swap file, and if you don't save the configuration or create a homedir, Knoppix will be running directly from RAM and won't touch the drive at all.