Speed up your Linux System with Preload

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Techtrob writes:

Preload is an “adaptive readahead daemon” that runs in the background of your system, and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time. By using Preload, you can put unused RAM to good work, and improve the overall performance of your desktop system.

Check out some of the numbers,

Application	“Cold” Startup Time	Preloaded Startup Time
Desktop Login	30s	23s
OpenOffice.org Writer	15s	7s
Firefox	11s	5s
Evolution	9s	4s
Gedit Text Editor	6s	4s
Gnome Terminal	4s	3s