[or-cvs] r15581: Describe what causes a prefetch trace file to appear (torbrowser/trunk/docs)

[sjm217 at seul.org]

Author: sjm217
Date: 2008-07-01 16:26:23 -0400 (Tue, 01 Jul 2008)
New Revision: 15581

Modified:
   torbrowser/trunk/docs/traces.txt
Log:
Describe what causes a prefetch trace file to appear

Modified: torbrowser/trunk/docs/traces.txt
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--- torbrowser/trunk/docs/traces.txt	2008-07-01 17:45:28 UTC (rev 15580)
+++ torbrowser/trunk/docs/traces.txt	2008-07-01 20:26:23 UTC (rev 15581)
@@ -36,6 +36,17 @@
 Also, the application was run from a USB drive. The situation could
 also be different if the application was run from the hard drive.
 
+Prefetch
+--------
+
+If there are less than 128 entries in WINDOWS/Prefetch on reboot, and
+sufficient time has passed since booting, the starting of any
+executable will create a new file in that location. File names are of
+the form <COMMAND>-<HASH>.pf.
+
+There appears to be no difference when the bundle is run from
+removable storage as opposed to the hard disk. 
+
 Future steps
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