replacing readahead by preload

[Martin Pitt]

Jérôme Bouat [2008-02-09 13:06 +0100]:
> Hello,
> 
> I get overall speed enhancement by using "preload" and removing "readahead".
> 
> Why not doing like me for the default configuration ?

Indeed we planned to move away from readahead to prefetch:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Prefetch

Martin
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