Unused apps grabbing cache

[patmurph123]

I'm running 4.3 on Sony Xperia M
I run a cache cleaner and sure enough - X Mb cleared. Run it again and it says there is no cache to clear.

Hang around for a while and use say calculator and Gmail.
Run cache cleaner and it says there is cache for apps that haven't been looked at for weeks - e.g. Skype, Facebook, News & Weather as well as apps that definitely have NOT been accessed since the last cache clean - Google Search, Google+ etc.


Cache keeps creeping in for UNUSED apps
This never happened on my olde gingerbread device.

Anyone know how to stop this ?

 

[breadnatty08]

I'd recommend just not worrying about it. Are you noticing your device slowing down?

 

[Crashdamage]

Exactly. Don't worry, be happy! I haven't given caches a thought for years.

 

[patmurph123]

I don't lose much sleep over this - it's not top priority, but .....

it seems logical that if I don't use e.g. Facebook, that e.g. Facebook's cache should NOT be affected. Why is Jellybean doing this, when its grandfather Gingerbread behaved more courteously.

Non-trivial replies preferred.

 

[Thom]

Tasks that you did not directly invoke can run in the background. I never use Facebook so I can't comment ... but ... I think Facebook has a lot of background tasks running.

The cause of slowing down is almost always due to two things ... you are running a task killer and/or your data cache partition is corrupted.

I recommend removing the task killer if you are using one and clear the cache periodically ... I clear mine every Saturday.

... Thom