Iconservices folders taking up many GB of space

In duplicating my Mavericks boot partition to a backup drive I noticed that there was a 6GB + difference in the size between the running partition and the backup partition.
I used SpaceGremlin to compare the two partitions and see that Maverick creates huge "com.apple.IconServices" folders within the private > var > folders.
Each is several GBs in size.
What is going on?
I don't see how this can be normal.
Mavericks is also creaing swapfiles at peak useage equaling over a GB (even though I haven't activated any apps like Photoshop that would normally account for this.
In installing Mavericks I installed it to a partition that was 50GB which allows approx. 15GB of overhead after all of my extra apps are included. But with these additional huge folders and swapfiles being created it has almost halved my available overhead. Not good.
Any info regarding this would be appreciated.
TIA
Ron

For users with only one partition they'll probably never be aware of it (unless they use a disk space utility that will expose them).
However for anyone that has their disk divided in to partitions so that their OS is on a partition with around 15GB of overhead (as I thought I would have)... it is extrememly noticeable. And if a user only left approx. 10GB of overhead (i.e. Mountain Lions' size + 10GB)... they will need to move their OS to a different (i.e. larger) partition.
I installed Mavericks on a 10GB larger partition than Mountain Lion was on (50GB versus 40GB). But all of these 'mystery' files/folders took up almost all of the additional space.
I'd really like to know what Apple did to use up approx. 5-6GB of space that Mountain Lion never needed and that NO WHERE does Apple mention in any of its white papers, etc.

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