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## Too many GCache Page Files in MySQL Data Directory

DevFeed: [Too many GCache Page Files in MySQL Data Directory](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/too-many-gcache-page-files-in-mysql-data-directory-35043.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.percona.com/blog/too-many-gcache-page-files-in-mysql-data-directory/>)

Author: Kedar Vaijanapurkar

Published: 2026-09-17T05:29:14Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog - Percona](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-percona.md>)

Topics: [XtraDB Cluster (PXC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/xtradb-cluster-pxc.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>)

Tags: [cluster](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cluster.md>), [database-administration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-administration.md>), [disk-space](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disk-space.md>), [galera](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/galera.md>), [galera-replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/galera-replication.md>), [gcache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcache.md>), [gcache-freeze-purge-at-seqno](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcache-freeze-purge-at-seqno.md>), [gcache-keep-pages-count](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcache-keep-pages-count.md>), [gcache-page](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcache-page.md>), [gcache-page-files](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcache-page-files.md>), [gcache-purge](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcache-purge.md>), [gcache-troubleshooting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcache-troubleshooting.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [mysql-disk-space](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql-disk-space.md>), [mysql-troubleshooting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql-troubleshooting.md>), [percona-xtradb-cluster](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/percona-xtradb-cluster.md>), [pxc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pxc.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [xtradb-cluster-pxc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xtradb-cluster-pxc.md>)

### AI overview

An investigation into thousands of GCache page files accumulating in a Percona XtraDB Cluster data directory. The article explains how frozen GCache purging caused disk growth, links the behavior to a cluster partition, and describes reproducing it by setting gcache.freeze_purge_at_seqno and generating workload.

### Source excerpt

Learn why PXC accumulates thousands of gcache.page.* files, how frozen GCache purging causes disk growth, and how to safely recover and rejoin using IST. The post Too many GCache Page Files in MySQL Data Directory appeared first on Percona.