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Generally, clearing caches will make programs run slower once (on first run after the clear), but it could speed things up if there's a massive amount of other
by autoexec 7mo ago
Generally, clearing caches will make programs run slower once (on first run after the clear), but it could speed things up if there's a massive amount of other stuff cached or if the cached thing you're trying to run got corrupted somehow.
- Retr0id 7mo agoThere is no situation in which having a populated page cache will slow things down, since those are the pages that linux will drop first to use for whatever else needs them.