Engine initialization takes longer and longer as caches increase

[Paladynee]

Stockfish was getting stuck at "waiting for readyok" up until i cleared the cache, code cache and GPU cache of nibbler.

[rooklift]

Curious.

[Paladynee]

More details:
I've been using nibbler for nearly 2 months and the first few weeks everything was fine. Then I started to realize stockfish getting slower and slower with time. However on lc0.exe there was no delay and it was always as fast as it could be. Recently startup of stockfish has gotten so slow that choosing stockfish from the engines menu took 2+ minutes, and started to sometimes say "Desync: Restart engine from engine menu".

I first suspected stockfish being the culprit and tried directly running the stockfish.exe and typing uci and isready as fast as I can. No matter how fast I type it, stockfish responded immediately, so stockfish was not the culprit.

Then I tried clearing the Nibbler caches by deleting the said folders and this fixed the issue immediately.

I will try to help with my cache files if I happen to come across this issue in the foreseeable future.

[rooklift]

I wouldn't be able to analyse such files anyway.