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://preload.sourceforge.net





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2009-04-15

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2005-07-08

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    Speeds up app loading time considerably, however may increase booting time a little bit.

    posted by Kai Krakow 21 days ago
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    Makes a big difference in app loading times - love it.

    posted by anonymous 22 days ago
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    Very good idea. Seems to make things faster.

    posted by anonymous 29 days ago
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    jerome_31 created the smarter power management artifact

    posted by jerome_31 11 days ago

  • Forum thread added

    posted by antdude 58 days ago

  • File released: /preload/0.6.4/preload-0.6.4.tar.gz

    posted 223 days ago

  • Code committed

    behdad committed revision 127 to the preload SVN repository, changing 4 files

    posted by behdad 223 days ago

  • preload 0.6.4 file released: preload-0.6.4.tar.gz

    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.

    posted 223 days ago

  • Code committed

    behdad committed revision 126 to the preload SVN repository, changing 2 files

    posted by behdad 224 days ago

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    bingalls created the Documentation forum thread

    posted by bingalls 237 days ago

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    pacho2 commented on the Use idle I/O priority artifact

    posted by pacho2 290 days ago

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    Anonymous commented on the Segfaults on --nice artifact

    posted by nobody 323 days ago

  • Code committed

    behdad committed revision 125 to the preload SVN repository, changing 2 files

    posted by behdad 352 days ago

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