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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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NAME

preload - Adaptive readahead daemon

SYNOPSIS

preload [ OPTION ]...

DESCRIPTION

preload is an adaptive readahead daemon that prefetches files mapped by applications from the disk to reduce application startup time.
-h , --help

Display command line parameters and their default values, and exit.

-v , --version

Display version information and exit.

-c , --conffile

Set configuration file. Empty string means no conf file. (default is /etc/preload.conf )

-s , --statefile

Set state file to load/save. Empty string means no state. (default is /var/lib/preload/preload.state )

-l , --logfile

Set log file. Empty string means to log to stderr. (default is /var/log/preload.log )

-f , --foreground

Run in foreground, do not daemonize.

-n , --nice

Nice level. (default is 15)

-V , --verbose

Set the verbosity level. Levels 0 to 10 are recognized. (default is 4)

-d , --debug

Debug mode: --logfile ’’ --foreground --verbose 9

SIGNALS

On receipt of a SIGHUP, the daemon will close and reopen its log file, and reread the configuration file.

On receipt of a SIGUSR1, the daemon dumps the currently loaded configuration into the log file.

On receipt of a SIGUSR2, the daemon saves its state into the state file.

AUTHOR

Written by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnu.org>

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <http://preload.sf.net/bug>