Speed Up Your Linux Application Loading Time with Preload

Installation :

For Ubuntu 7.04 – 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope:

sudo apt-get install preload

For Fedora 7,8,9,10,11 : under root

yum install preload

For Mandriva :

urpmi preload

For Open suse ( add packman repository first):

zypper install preload

Configuration file:

You can find the config file at :

/etc/preload.conf 

With The default values in the config file,preload work fine.

Monitoring :

To check up on what resources Preload is using:

sudo tail -f /var/log/preload.log

Preload can provide a great improvement in application startup time and increases the speed of your system while staying in the background.

Later in my next article, i will show you how to make advanced configuration of preload.

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload/