diff --git a/volatility3/framework/layers/resources.py b/volatility3/framework/layers/resources.py
index d25c8d5f1..a56d54dc3 100644
--- a/volatility3/framework/layers/resources.py
+++ b/volatility3/framework/layers/resources.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class ResourceAccessor(object):
         """Determines whether a URLs contents should be cached"""
         parsed_url = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
 
-        return not parsed_url.scheme in self._non_cached_schemes()
+        return self._enable_cache and not parsed_url.scheme in self._non_cached_schemes()
 
     @staticmethod
     def _non_cached_schemes() -> List[str]:
@@ -225,7 +225,6 @@ class JarHandler(VolatilityHandler):
     Actual reference (found from https://www.w3.org/wiki/UriSchemes/jar) seemed not to return:
     http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/protocolhandlers/
     """
-
     @classmethod
     def non_cached_schemes(cls) -> List[str]:
         return ['jar']
diff --git a/volatility3/framework/symbols/windows/pdbconv.py b/volatility3/framework/symbols/windows/pdbconv.py
index 7d8f8109f..6d50c9a58 100644
--- a/volatility3/framework/symbols/windows/pdbconv.py
+++ b/volatility3/framework/symbols/windows/pdbconv.py
@@ -937,7 +937,8 @@ class PdbRetreiver:
             for suffix in [file_name, file_name[:-1] + '_']:
                 try:
                     vollog.debug("Attempting to retrieve {}".format(url + suffix))
-                    result = resources.ResourceAccessor(progress_callback).open(url + suffix)
+                    # Don't cache the PDB files since they might build up and there's little benefit
+                    result = resources.ResourceAccessor(progress_callback, enable_cache = False).open(url + suffix)
                 except (error.HTTPError, error.URLError) as excp:
                     vollog.debug("Failed with {}".format(excp))
             if result: