cache/xmltv folder size

[manolodf 11]

Not sure if this is normal behavior, or if it is related to an old issue that duplicated the guide on every refresh but the cache/xmltv folder has about 136 files in it, approximately 4 per day all between 4-4:30AM every day for the past month, June 12th being the oldest and July 12 being the most recent.

 

They are all between 42-50mb each and add up to about 6GB of usage, but I dont undesrtand why it is being duplicated like that, or if that is perhaps a bug?  

 

 

The oldest one: f8c6941700079752a145f60cbf3681a8-163-9-0.xml

The most recent one:  f8c6941700079752a145f60cbf3681a8-193-9-3.xml

 

[Luke 42077]

The cache folder is used for temporary storage and the server will automatically delete files that are older than 30 days old. So over time it will clean up after itself.

[manolodf 11]

Hi Luke,

Would it help folder size at all if I go back to using the .xml.gz extension on the EPG?  Last time that caused an issue because that file was decompressed and replicated per channel so it was like 140gb or so, but I think that fix was already done right?  Would it then compress that folder size down to under 1gb if I go that route?

[Luke 42077]

I'm not sure, you can try it. We can also look at cleaning out certain parts of the cache folder more often.

[manolodf 11]

Any progress on being able to set this to be cleaned more often?   I have this folder at over 10gb since there are 189 files in the past 30 days all between 15-90mb

[Luke 42077]

We're looking into improving this for a future release, thanks.

[hadim 4]

The xml file size I am using is 150 MB, so the xmltv cache folder of Emby grows quickly on my server (~15GB).

I tried using a compressed file (.xml.zip or .xml.gz) but Emby triggers an error so I guess it's not supported.

Would that be possible to allow compressed files or allow a custom interval to cleanup the cache folder?

[Luke 42077]

On 5/17/2025 at 2:05 PM, hadim said:

The xml file size I am using is 150 MB, so the xmltv cache folder of Emby grows quickly on my server (~15GB).

I tried using a compressed file (.xml.zip or .xml.gz) but Emby triggers an error so I guess it's not supported.

Would that be possible to allow compressed files or allow a custom interval to cleanup the cache folder?

Hi, we'll take another look at improving this. Thanks.