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Preload Drastically Boosts Linux Performance

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 25, 2008 @05:12PM from the getting-in-line-early dept.

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."

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What, what? by PhrostyMcByte · 2008-02-25 17:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

You mean Linux adapted something from Windows instead of the other way around? What's next, a sane proactor i/o api?

Joking aside, this is cool. You can be mad at Vista for a number of reasons, but SuperFetch is not one of them - I have noticed a decent speed improvement because of it, and look forward to having something similar in Linux. Glad to see people aren't above taking the good ideas from Windows (or wherever Microsoft stole it from, if that's the case).