preload is a
free Linux program which runs as a
daemon to record statistics about usage of files by more frequently-used programs. This information is then used to keep these files preloaded into
memory. This results in faster
application startup times as less data needs to be fetched from disk. preload is often paired with
prelink. preload was written by
Behdad Esfahbod and uses
Markov chains in its implementation;