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
Preload was written by Behdad, a Red Hat/Fedora developer and we had a recent discussion about including it by default in Fedora (it's already in the repo). Before using preload, you might want to read
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/74769