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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2005-07-06
Those two approaches are complimentary and are in fact written by the same Red Hat developer. Prelink was introduced in FC2 IIRC and hash was introduced in Fedora Core 6 first
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/R...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2006-06/msg00418.html
Edited 2008-02-26 00:38 UTC