What is with the Shader Cache size?

[Creeper of Doom]

The Shader Cache size on Steam Deck is really ridiculous.
I have so many examples.

January 2024: I use to have a game named Assassins Creed Origins added as a Non-Steam game, The Cache size was at 1.2 Gigabytes after 20 hours of play
I bought it on Steam and its Shader Size is 300 Megabytes

Feburary 2024: A game named Riddle Joker had a catastrophe with its Shader Cache. It starting out at 200 Megabytes, averaging about 900 Megabytes later, months later it jumping up to 2 Gigabytes via a download and now its 4 Gigabytes.

oh yeah. and one time Riddle Joker’s Shader Cache size jumped up to 26 Gigabytes randomly, it bricked my Steam Deck due to there being no available disk space left. I had to use a Recovery Medium in order to delete the Cache to make it boot again

For Various other titles the Shader Cache is insane. for S___r M___o O_____y Storage Cleaner reports 2 Gigabytes of Shader Cache storage
For Native Linux Games its strange because if i boot them via their Executable in desktop mode it wont make a Shader Cache and therefore wont stutter

[Creeper of Doom]

Just hoping Shader Cache size is fixed, some time ago its Sizes were heavily reduced but its not enough because i am still running low on Disk Space from all the Shader Caches. some don’t make sense like Linux Executables because running them directly from their executables don’t generate cache

[@R+5]

not sure if its a bug of steam client, but something like that has happened a few times. im not sure, but maybe updating the client, and then the games after cleaning the cache could help?

in pc with linux i also experienced a few times same thing with a few games, and sometimes after updating and cleaning, and rebuilding the cache, the issue was temporarily fixed.