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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2007-07-26
You all seem to be confused. Preload uses RAM to cache recently used programs. Nothing I know of at the moment uses the hard drive to do this as it would be just as fast loading the program as you normally would. You guys may be thinking of swap space which is only used when you run out of available physical memory. If you run in to this situation while preload is running than I'm sure you will see a greater performance hit, but if this happens at any time than you will still be seeing a performance hit and preload running or not would be the least of your worries. RAM is cheap right now so stock up if this happens a lot.