Can I safely remove /var/cache?
I am running out of disk space and noted that I have a large /var/cache directory. Can I safely remove this? (using Arch Linux, BTW).
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Speed up copying 1000000 small files
I have 1000000 4-20 kb files in a dir (You can generate similar files like this: seq 10000 | gzip > a; seq 1000000 | parallel --bar 'head -c{=$_=int(rand()*16)+4=}k a > {}')
How to clear memory cache in Linux
Is there any command that by using I can clean the cache in RHEL? I used this command: sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches but it didn’t work. Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them … Read more
Is it safe to remove ~/.cache?
When I scanned my $HOME directory with baobab (Disk Usage Analyzer), I found that ~/.cache is consuming about half a GB.
Can I easily make a host “mirror” that caches downloaded Debian packages?
We’ve got a Squid web cache set up that is used for caching package downloads, so that all the machines here don’t have to independently redownload everything. The installer prompts for a mirror and proxy. As long as every machine uses the exact same mirror (here, http.us.debian.org) and the proxy then it works.
Is “Cached” memory de-facto free?
When running cat /proc/meminfo, you get these 3 values at the top:
Why does Chromium not cache DNS for more than a minute?
I use Chromium and have problems with the DNS not being cached for the time that I would expect. Take the example.com domain. According to the DNS settings, this domain should be cached for another 26151 seconds:
How to time grep commands accurately?
I want to compare the speed of these two commands:
How to add support for caching plugins for my own plugin?
Is there a generic way to support caching plugins? For example to set a flag after you update an option that caching plugins watch?