On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 16:15 +, Jérôme wrote:
> Why is ubuntu not using "preload" ?
>
preload, readahead, prefetch, sreadahead, etc. are all just variations
on a theme.
We currently use readahead, and don't have compelling reasons to switch
to the others - since they introduce just as many pr
Hello Scott,
Thanks for the explanation.
Why is ubuntu not using "preload" ?
FYI,
I replaced "readahead" by "preload" on the below system
and it made it faster:
- CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1500+
- mem: 392 MB
- Ubuntu version: hardy
- minimum total size of the used files of the tracked processes: 4MB
