Speed up your Linux + optimize useless files

Tomas Forsman — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:08:26 +0000

There is several applications that do the same thing, but preload is probably easiest one to get going with.

preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.

Fastest way to install it, is through Terminal. Open Termial and write:

sudo conary update preload

To check if its been started, write this in Terminal:

ps ax | grep preload

and you will see:

1743 ? SNs 0:00 /usr/sbin/preload –verbose 1

1743 ? SNs 0:00 /usr/sbin/preload –verbose 1

Next application that can be worth lookin at, is Bleachbit.

BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean over 50 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more.

Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.

To install it, open Terminal and write:

sudo conary update bleachbit

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Speed up your Linux + optimize useless files