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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2008-02-24
I guess a highly aggressive prefetch might cause problems. It's one thing to fill disk cache with potentially useful blocks just after booting--that's pretty harmless-- and another thing to start reading-in files for one application while another application is running because you expect the user to do it next. I think it all depends on how aggressive the prefetch is.