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.
Questions tagged [preload]
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Drawbacks of using preload? Why isn't it included by default?
I would like to know what are the drawbacks of using preload? If there would be no downside, preload would be enabled by default, so I guess there are some.
Okay you need a bit more RAM, but most people have by far more RAM then Ubuntu needs - so…
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How to make ubuntu use more RAM to cache a specific set of binaries?
After 2 weeks of trying, failing, trying again, still failing, I finally got Ubuntu stable and operational.
My hard disk is quite old and slow but I have excessive RAM (16 GB 2133 mhz), so I was thinking about using that RAM for faster fetching.
How…
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How to clean "Preload" cache?
I am a new user for Ubuntu, recently I installed Preload for better performance, and then I got interested how can I clean its cache.
Is there any command to do it, I didn't find any in the internet.
"preload" was installed with command:
sudo apt…
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How to check if preload is running or not?
I've installed preload like 4-5 days ago. Still I can't see any performance difference. Is there any way to check if preload is running or not? I checked on system monitor but couldn't find it. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
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Webcam on Skype and Teamviewer
I use a Trust webcam on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop. It used to work fine until, for other reasons, I decided to reinstall Ubuntu 16.04 one month ago. Now I can't use it with Skype or Teamviewer, although it works with Cheese.
It previously needed a…
mith
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Preloading Files
I want to pre-load some Files / Programs into the memory, ram, cache to open / access them faster.
I already tried creating a tmpfs, ramfs System
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/RAM-Disk_erstellen
(Sorry its in German) by calling those commands for…
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Launch eset libc library before samba daemon
Trying to configure "On-access scanner using preload LIBC library" in ESET File Security.
The manual states:
... to have the On-access scanner to monitor all file system access events immediately after starting
the Samba server. Within the Samba…
Nikita Gasov
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Preload stuff automatically?
Is there a way to configure preload or another thing that does the same thing to pre-load Chrome or other specific applications by default ?
I rarely run out of ram and use this machine for browsing and video only pretty much.
Start-up time for…
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Preload 0.6.4 not working
I installed preload on a fresh system and I get the following error:
[Sun Sep 1 08:59:15 2013] loading conf from /etc/preload.conf
[Sun Sep 1 08:59:15 2013] loading state from /var/lib/preload/preload.state
[Sun Sep 1 08:59:15 2013] failed…
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Starting preload
I just installed preload. I found, that sudo /etc/init.d/preload start command is starting it - I need to do it after every boot up? Maybe it's starting automatically? If not - how can I set it to do it?
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Preload for PlayOnLinux Application?
I am already using ureadahead and preload for a long time.
It works fine, but I often have to use Microsoft Office 2010, which is installed with PlayOnLinux.
The first load of Word, Excel or Powerpoint needs a long time. The second load time of…
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Preloads's Adaptive readahead daemon won't run on 14.04
thank you in advance.
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and for somereason i can't get Adaptive readahead daemon to run, when i try to run it from terminal i encounter:
** (process:7371): ERROR **: cannot open /var/log/preload.log: Permission…
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Is this Ram usage normal?
My system is Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit + Unity and it uses ~600mb with no other processes-apps open and with preload 900mb, just the core system. Is this the expected amount? It seems a bit steep to me but perhaps this is normal behavior.
ps: my pc has…
