Beware: Adobe 9 ifilter can use up CPUs even when not filtering

I have had this reported from more than a few customers than even when their indexing is complete the mssdmn.exe process which is where the iflters process your files will continue to use up CPUs. I suspect this is a poor attempt by Adobe to keep their libraries and resources loaded by using a timer or sleep loop for faster startup, but it obviously is not working well.

Note: this behaviour was NOT reported for the Adobe 8 reader ifilter.

Solution: Install the Foxit or PDFLIB.com ifilter instead, it will cost you a little money (usually less than 1k) but your problem will be solved.

Cheers. 

 

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Published Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:49 AM by notorioustech

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Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:56 AM by Christian

# re: Beware: Adobe 9 ifilter can use up CPUs even when not filtering

I can confirm that replacing the Adobe 9 PDF iFilter on our index server with Foxits solved our CPU problems.

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