Comment 3 for bug 318505

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : re: [Bug 318505] Re: readahead default configuration hurts the system performance

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 16:15 +0000, Jérôme wrote:

> Why is ubuntu not using "preload" ?
>
preload, readahead, prefetch, sreadahead, etc. are all just variations
on a theme.

We currently use readahead, and don't have compelling reasons to switch
to the others - since they introduce just as many problems as they
solve.

Scott
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