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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Member since: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
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2006-03-12
it is one of the first things that i install after doing a new OS install.
not so much use if you you ar eshort of ram, but on a machine with 1 or 2 GB it keeps the free space full of useful stuff.
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also on the topic of prelinking. dont try doing it on a recent ubuntu.
"Prelink is no longer necessary in Feisty. Feisty uses a new linking mechanism called DT_GNU_HASH which dramatically speeds up the linking process without the need for continuously running this prelink program. Again, prelink is NOT useful starting from Feisty"
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=74197
Edited 2008-02-25 23:06 UTC