Preload Drastically Boosts Linux Performance

Nemilar writes "Preload is a Linux daemon that stores commonly-used libraries and binaries in memory to speed up access times, similar to the Windows Vista SuperFetch function. This article examines Preload and gives some insight into how much performance is gained for its total resource cost, and discusses basic installation and configuration to get you started."

Comments

Re:What, what?

[bersl2]

(or wherever Microsoft stole it from, if that's the case). OS X had prebinding before Vista had SuperFetch. And they got the idea from somewhere else.

Just let it go. This pissing match over innovation serves no useful purpose.

Re:What, what?

[markov_chain]

innovation = first time to do something from your point of view

invention = first time to do something ever

Note how MS is always careful to point out they innovate.

*flush*

Re:What, what?

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

You mean Linux adapted something from Windows instead of the other way around? Fundamentally, preload and superfetch are just gussied up versions of the sticky bit which I am sure wasn't unique to unix back in the 70s either.

Re:Blogspam

[xenocide2]

By doing something productive, not spamming me with shit I already knew about. Blog about new information you've generated. Maybe make some charts about disk head position during boot and demonstrate whether I/O is throughput or seek bound. Above all else, don't just copy someone else's shit and translate it into HTML.