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diff --git a/system/preload/preload.8 b/system/preload/preload.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ef83418612 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/preload/preload.8 @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +.\" 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. |