preload (software)

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preload is a Free Linux program written by Behdad Esfahbod which runs as a daemon and records statistics about usage of programs using Markov chains; files of more frequently-used programs are, during a computer's spare time, loaded into memory.[1] This results in faster application startup times as less data needs to be fetched from disk. preload is often paired with prelink.

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  1. ^ Preload — An Adaptive Prefetching Daemon, Behdad Esfahbod, 2006.
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