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Rephrase header. Add note to say that cleaning up every now and again…
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Caspar van Leeuwen committed Mar 26, 2024
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### Starting a shell in the EESSI container - more efficient approach
### More efficient approach for multiple/continued debugging sessions
While the above works perfectly well, you might not be able to complete your debugging session in one go. With the above approach, several steps will just be repeated every time you start a debugging session:
- Downloading the container
- Installing `CUDA` in your [host injections](../gpu.md#host_injections) directory (only if you use the `EESSI-install-software.sh` script, see below).
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!!! Note
Reusing a previously downloaded container, or existing CUDA installation from a `host_injections` is not be a good approach if those could be the cause of your issues. If you are unsure if this is the case, simply follow the regular approach to starting the EESSI container.

!!! Note
It is recommended to clean the container cache and `host_injections` directories every now and again, to make sure you pick up the latest changes for those two components.

### Start the Gentoo Prefix environment
The next step is to start the Gentoo Prefix environment.

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