Preload and similar performance tuneups

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ID: 806
PHID: PHID-TASK-erwp4upfahmfzjiuoc4h
Author: HulaHoop
Status at Migration Time: open
Priority at Migration Time: Normal

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This ticket is for discussing the efficacy of performance profiling programs and their inclusion by default.

preload to increase system performance?

Its great for workflows involving using the same programs frequently where it will then then go ahead and preload it in memory for you to make subsequent starts faster. This will cause the RAM to be used up with programs that it predicts are frequently used and will delay the startup of rarely used programs as the pages need to be evicted to make way. For the Whonix usecase where we have transient setups because of snapshot rollback or DisposableVMs, its presence would be of almost no use(?) …

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