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.
Speeds up app loading time considerably, however may increase booting time a little bit.
Makes a big difference in app loading times - love it.
Very good idea. Seems to make things faster.
2009-04-15 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * NEWS: * configure.ac: Released preload-0.6.4. 2009-04-15 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * src/Makefile.am: The source (and dot) builtin in POSIX /bin/sh does not search current dir. Use $(SHELL) instead. 2009-04-14 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * src/Makefile.am: Better handle file generation failures. 2008-12-07 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * src/preload.c (daemonize): Change umask from 0117 to 0007. 0117 means disaster if we end up creating a dir. 2008-11-24 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * configure.ac: Require glib >= 2.14 * src/state.c (preload_state_tick2), (preload_state_tick), (preload_state_autosave), (preload_state_run): Use g_timeout_add_seconds instead of g_timeout_add. Patch from Jan Kantert. 2008-10-09 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * src/preload.conf.in: Clarify exe/map matching. 2008-08-19 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * src/cmdline.c: --nice was segfaulting. Fix it.
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