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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The link pointing to the Redhat/Fedora discussion thread mentioned in the first comment gives lots information about the state of the project.
Although the project has "been idling in kind of unmaintained state" there seems to be lots of new interest and activity around it now, like merging of patches and fixing of bugs. So at least according to that information there should be a new release coming "sometime soonish".
Edited 2008-02-25 21:24 UTC
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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.