Preload (software)

preload is a Free Linux program written by Behdad Esfahbod which runs as a daemon and records statistics about usage of programs using Markov chains; files of more frequently-used programs are, during a computer's spare time, loaded into memory. [http://behdad.org/preload.pdf Preload — An Adaptive Prefetching Daemon] , Behdad Esfahbod, 2006.] This results in faster application startup times as less data needs to be fetched from disk. preload is often paired with prelink.

External links

* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload Project homepage] on Sourceforge
* [http://www.colitti.com/lorenzo/publications/gnome-sane.pdf "Analyzing and improving GNOME startup time"] -(PDF)

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