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Speed Up Your System With Preload On Ubuntu 9.04

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This tutorial explains how you can install preload on Ubuntu 9.04. preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.

This tutorial explains how you can install preload on Ubuntu 9.04. preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.

http://www.howtoforge.com/speed-up-your-system-with-preload-on-ubuntu-9.04

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Comments (3)

keithcu ·
It told me hardly anything.
Steven_Rosenber ·
You know, I tried preload, can't remember if it was in Debian or Ubuntu, and it didn't speed up anything for me.
azerthoth ·
Steven, IIRC you are perpetually putting *nix OS's on computers that are one step up from being hamster driven. Preloading apps requires something specific, enough memory for those apps to stay cached.

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