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+.\" 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.