Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 18:49 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Build System wrote:
>
>> New package preload
>> Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon
> Heey, we talk around this things incarnation over at Novell and it turns
> out we have a thing boiling in BZ since october.
>
> The sheer size of the Fedora community makes it possible to miss such
> things, and that's good news! Now, some preload-testing.
>
> Linus
>
It was created by Behdad and surprisingly has been highly recommended in
Ubuntu/Debian for awhile. Surprisingly that it didn't get into Fedora
till now.
There was a prior work called simply 'readahead' which was in Fedora and removed
due to making almost no real difference. Hopefully the newer incarnation is
effective.
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