techthrob.com — 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. Best of all, it's easy to install and use!
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miothegreatFeb 25, 2008
"You may not be using it right now, but when you open up Photoshop (or gimp in the case of the linux/bsd users) and load up that 300 meg (uncompressed) ultra-high res graphic your company want's to use on it's billboards you better have ram to spare of you're gonna suffer as data has to be move back and forth to the hard drive which, with a huge image like that, takes a hell of a lot of time."You should never notice a performance hit from a good prefetcher deallocating memory. It's not going to bother to page anything it's pushing out of RAM. It's just going to drop it. It doesn't care about reloading that data as it was, because it was just prefetching documents and apps, which it can still get to.It should be capable of freeing up memory the moment you need it very, VERY quickly. It doesn't have to read it back into the hdd, it just has to surrender it back to the rest of the system.
fergyFeb 26, 2008
If you would put in anything less than Ubuntu does you would get a really minimalistic distro. You can activate or deactivate Compiz with one click. But you must be someone that doesn't like extras like fast user switching, compiz, pulseaudio, tracker and maybe 10 years ago X.
fergyFeb 26, 2008
Funny how you first mention that most people don't understand computers and right after that show that you don't understand computers but still think that it would be useful to say anything.
Closed AccountFeb 26, 2008
I wasn't addressing that part of his post. He complained about Linux using ideas present in other operating systems, and I showed that Windows does the same. It's also worth pointing out that not disproving a point != proving a point.
dwbellFeb 26, 2008
MS has many great ideas, but poor implementation.
bruenigFeb 27, 2008
You can activate or deactivate preload with just one click too. So what is your point? This is not something which is needed and ubuntu installations generally require two steps. 40 minutes to install an hour or so of uninstalling garbage.
lilrabbit129Feb 27, 2008
The harddrive space has very little to do with speed of the computer, so that upgrade doesn't count. Also, he upgraded from a 400MHZ computer ot a 1.4GHZ computer, which is still lower than what the parent mentioned. We all know that mhz isnt directly comparable, but in this case its close enough.
ubuntugamerMar 1, 2008
wow that sounds just like me, except I saved $2000 dollars because in order to run osx you have to buy a mac
closMar 4, 2008
dude, i agree, arch is the best linux distros ever, in the history of linux distros arch is the f**king s**t
7beerSep 23, 2008
Ah, ms fan boys, Vista actually can do this? Tell me then, WHY does Linux still use much less ram WITH preload and WHY is Vistas performance on a WINDOWS program even slower than Linux with Wine AND WITHOUT preload?How can Linux run on 10 years old hardware with preload, but Vista sucks down even the newest hardware to the point of unusability?Shut up when you have no idea what you are talking about.Thanks