Need info on the "Preload Apps" option in Lite Tweaks

[ralphy]

OK. I read that over. I was actually looking for a way to stop preload and remove it.

You may want to check what SeaMonkey version you are using. It doesn't seem preload to be the issue on my end. To uninstall preload, open Lite Tweaks, select "Preload Apps" and click Begin... there is an option within it to remove it.

preload is a readahead daemon (a service) that monitors and keeps a history of the user’s most frequently used applications and the files that those applications load on execution. Then based on that data, it guesses what applications the user will likely use in the near future and (partially) loads them from the hard drive to the system page cache (before they’re requested). In short, once preload is installed, after creating its database to better estimate its predictions, your frequently used applications will launch faster.


Keep in mind though, preload is not a “set and go” daemon. You won’t immediately notice applications launching faster and as mentioned before, for speeding up apps start-up times, preload needs to build its database by monitoring the runtime of applications (ignoring anything that runs under 20 seconds) and its memory usage, thus calculating the importance of an application.