Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Feb 2008 20:11 UTC, submitted by Nemilar
Preload is a Linux daemon that stores commonly-used libraries and binaries in memory to speed up access times; similar to Windows Vista's SuperFetch function. This article looks at Preload and gives some insight into how much performance is gained for its total resource cost.
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2005-07-14
I just learn about preload 1 hour before that post... and got excited about it then I realized it was not updated in 2 years and that attempt to add it to Gentoo were canceled (from what I read in bug reports at least) due to lack of improvement and no upstream development.