Title: very large cache
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# very large cache

 *  [radupi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radupi/)
 * (@radupi)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-large-cache/)
 * The cache generated by w3 seems unusually large. I have a news site which is 
   almost 7 month old, with 200+ posts. Total cache size was over 100 Mb.
 * I tried to empty the cache via options in the plugin but nothing happened. I 
   deleted the cache manually (ftp) but w3 immediately started building it again,
   EVEN for very old posts, which were certainly not viewed at the moment.
 * I deactivated the plugin now, as it seems unreasonable to dedicate +100 MB of
   cache for a site of little above 300 MB.
 * the site is [http://profitinfo.ro/](http://profitinfo.ro/)
    Am i doing something
   wrong? and wasn’t W3 supposed to erase or empty cache after a while?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Thread Starter [radupi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radupi/)
 * (@radupi)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-large-cache/#post-3486608)
 * someone help on this topic?
 *  [Orlando Alonzo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogalinski/)
 * (@ogalinski)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-large-cache/#post-3486610)
 * [@radupi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radupi/):
 * Ha! my cache was at 1.2 GB before I decided to clear it. The plugin author told
   me that the garbage collector of the plugin isn’t working right, and should be
   improved in the next version. Hope that helps.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-large-cache/#post-3486610)
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