Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Object cache: Huge disk space drain
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Object cache: Huge disk space drain

 *  [Grof](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grof/)
 * (@grof)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-object-cache-huge-disk-space-drain/)
 * Hello,
    I’m using W3TC on my site and all works well except Object cache function.
   When I enable this function, server starts spend my disk space on server (like
   the garbage collector do not works well).
 * In cPanel this space is categorized as Other Usage and we can not locate these
   garbage files. Please, can you help us and tell which and where W3TC creates 
   cache files?
 * Of course, obvious that is some bugs in Object cache module…
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [haddow777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haddow777/)
 * (@haddow777)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-object-cache-huge-disk-space-drain/#post-2771936)
 * If you are in fact cacheing the object data to the disk, I would assume that 
   it is being stored here, “wp-content/w3tc/objectcache”.
 * Are you on a shared hosting account? If not, you should try APC. I don’t think
   that object caching to the disk is really a great option. I haven’t tried it 
   though, so don’t take my opinion as gospel though.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-object-cache-huge-disk-space-drain/#post-2771995)
 * I don’t recommend using object caching to disk unless you’ve tested it and it
   actually helps. W3TC is a framework, just because options exist doesn’t mean 
   they are right for your situation. When 1.0 arrives it will be harder to make
   tuning mistakes, however for now, the installation instructions should be followed.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-object-cache-huge-disk-space-drain/#post-2771995)
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