[arch-general] Is preload really working ??

[Raghavendra D Prabhu]

Preload never worked for me, may be the performance improvment was too
low for me to notice. You can also try readahead-list but I am skeptical
about that too.

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:53:20PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>On 05/04/2010 08:16 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
>>On 05/05/10 00:07, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm running preload since about two months, but I haven't seen any
>>>improvement in program startup times especially firefox, which I launch
>>>and close every now and then.
>>>
>>
>>I think you have experimentally found the answer to your own question...
>>
>
>What's the fix then ? I saw a big list of .so's in 
>/var/lib/preload/something.state
>
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