Adobe Reader CPU Usage

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4 total messages Started by Hugo_Valadas Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:16

#144

Author: Hugo_Valadas
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:16

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Hello All,

The problem i'm having is that "acroread" process after being open for some time (many hours or even days) starts to use all the CPU without anyone touch the application. This causes lots of trouble because i'm using all the time simulation software and "acroread" starts to share CPU with my mission critical applications and I cannot be always checking if acroread has crashed.

I've tried with more than one Linux distribution and have read in some web forums that other linux distributions have the same problem.

Currently i'm using CentOS 4.4 (Linux 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jul 7 19:52:49 CDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)
Even in CentOS 4.3 , 4.2 , 3.4 they all had the same problem.

I'm using acroread 7.0.8 but older versions of 7.x did the same.

Please share some ideas about this issue.
Thanks

Re: Adobe Reader CPU Usage

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Author: AshutoshJSharma
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:30

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Hi Hugo,

This is a known issue and we will be working on this for the next release.

Thanks,
Ashutosh

Re: Adobe Reader CPU Usage

#147

Author: Hugo_Valadas
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:27

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Ok. Thank you. Keep up the good work

Best Regards,
HV

Re: Adobe Reader CPU Usage

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Author: Phil Sherman
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:09

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If you have to keep the reader open for long periods of time, you might 
try the one of the following. They won't correct the problem but should 
decrease the impact until a fix is generated. A combination of the two 
may be the best choice.

1. Use "nice" to start acroread. This will lower the dispatching 
priority of acroread and, when it starts eating the processor, should 
decrease or eliminate the impact on your critical applications. You can 
replace acroread with a script that uses "nice" to execute a renamed 
acroread.

2. Write a script to execute "top" and use it to monitor the cpu usage 
of the reader. When it starts eating cycles, kill it. This will require 
you to restart the reader after it has been killed. If you don't want to 
automatically kill the reader, send the userid running the reader a 
message that it needs to be restarted.

Phil Sherman

Hugo_Valadas@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Ok. Thank you. Keep up the good work
> 
> Best Regards,
> HV

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