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preload

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.

-s, --statefile

Set state file to load/save. Empty string means no state.

-l, --logfile

Set log file. Empty string means to log to stderr.

-f, --foreground

Run in foreground, do not daemonize.

-n, --nice

Nice level.

-V, --verbose

Set the verbosity level. Levels 0 to 10 are recognized.

-d, --debug

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

-i, --ionice

Run using the idle IO priority class.

SIGNALS

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2005 Behdad Esfahbod.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.