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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RE: linux preload is like the old XP's prefetcher
by J.R. on Tue 26th Feb 2008 13:05
in reply to "linux preload is like the old XP's prefetcher"
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linux's preload is like the old XP's prefetcher.
Vista's Superfetch is much better, it is NOT just only a preloading.
Vista's Superfetch is much better, it is NOT just only a preloading.
Just a quick question. Is this the reason why Vista just go crazy when idling? I almost got kicked out from the library because the machine started working like crazy when I was at the toilet, and the fan speed reached like 6000 rpm or something.
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2007-02-27
linux's preload is like the old XP's prefetcher.
Vista's Superfetch is much better, it is NOT just only a preloading.
Edited 2008-02-26 10:04 UTC