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Preload: How To Speed Up Your Linux Application Loading Time

Posted by Vivek Gite [Last updated: February 28, 2008]

preload is a free Linux. It runs in background and records statistics about usage of more frequently-used programs. These programs are loaded into a Linux memory. Thus results is faster application startup times. From the project home page:

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.

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(Fig. 01: preload in action - saving time while loading Linux apps)

There is a nice tutorial published by Techthrob about installing and configuring Techthrob under Debian / Ubuntu Linux systems.

=> Drastically Speed up your Linux System with Preload

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