Fedora 9 Feature suggestion - The start menu and caching

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:30 +0100, Mark wrote:
> > One of the speeding up while not on boot but in operation can be preload
> > which I have uploaded to bugzilla already and needs a sponsor.
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333491
> >
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload
> >
> > I'll quote from their page.
> >
> > "preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that
> > users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users
> > might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory
> > for faster startup times."
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Marc
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is that "preload" also caching the files that it puts in its list?
> if that's the case than this program would be a wonderful program to
> have in fedora.
> 
> Assuming the program is doing the following: you just work on your
> computer and that daemon is registering all files that you access. the
> most used files(?) are getting cached at next boot right?
> 

Yes thats how it works. It is all automated with the config files
under /etc  The biggest benefit is that it updates itself.  

It saves the list every 3600 seconds. Download the SRPM and give it a go
to get a better idea.

Cheers,

Marc