.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35. .TH PRELOAD "8" "September 2005" "preload 0.2" "System Administration Utilities" .SH NAME preload \- Adaptive readahead daemon .SH SYNOPSIS .B preload [\fIOPTION\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION preload is an adaptive readahead daemon that prefetches files mapped by applications from the disk to reduce application startup time. .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR Display this information and exit. .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR Display version information and exit. .TP \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-conffile\fR Set configuration file. Empty string means no conf file. (default is /home/behdad/.local/etc/preload.conf) .TP \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-statefile\fR Set state file to load/save. Empty string means no state. (default is /home/behdad/.local/var/preload/preload.state) .TP \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-logfile\fR Set log file. Empty string means to log to stderr. (default is /home/behdad/.local/var/log/preload.log) .TP \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-foreground\fR Run in foreground, do not daemonize. .TP \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nice\fR Nice level. (default is 15) .TP \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR Set the verbosity level. Levels 0 to 10 are recognized. (default is 4) .TP \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-debug\fR Debug mode: \fB\-\-logfile\fR '' \fB\-\-foreground\fR \fB\-\-verbose\fR 9 .SH 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. .SH AUTHOR Written by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnu.org> .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2005 Behdad Esfahbod. .br This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.