Opening signed PDF's is slow + generates high CPU usage

Dear,
I'm using the latest version 11.0.06. Normal PDF's open quick. PDF's signed with a signature take about 5 seconds to open, a big difference. I'm running Windows 8.1 but the issue is the same on Windows 7 SP1 (fully patched systems). When the PDF is opening, the CPU spikes to 30 or 50%. Since I'm administering some virtual PC's also (with less performant virtual CPU's then physical CPU's), the PDF's take even 8 seconds to open in this environment. The environment is quite optimized with settings like disabling update checks,...
Some things I tried :
- Disable antivirus (no difference)
- Disable messages when I launch / Don't show messages while viewing (in General preferences)
- Disable check signatures / signature revocation
- Disable protected mode at startup
Another test I did is installing foxit reader. This PDF reader opens the signed PDF's as quick a normal PDF's and evening quicker then Adobe reader is opening normal PDF's.
Any advice on further troubleshooting steps ? I would prefer to stay using Adobe reader instead of migrating to another software.
Best regards / thanks in advance for your help,
Wim

Hi Deepak,
Thanks for your feedback. Both on Windows 7 and 8.1, this value doesn't exist. This also describes another issue but it was worth trying anyway.
You can test on your own system by using this example pdf : http://blogs.adobe.com/security/SampleSignedPDFDocument.pdf
Best regards,
Wim

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http://ninocrudele.me/2014/01/29/checkstat-and-sftp-adapter-issues/
Thanks
Abhishek

High CPU usage when editing large MXML files

I am using Flash Builder 4.5 Plug-in on OSX. When I have a large MXML file open, Eclipse will consume 100% of the CPU as long as that file is open, even if I am not doing anything. If I close that editor the CPU usage goes back down. I've seen this in Flash Builder standalone as well as the plugin. Is there a workaround to stop this CPU usage problem?
Thanks

Hiya,
could it have something to do with the write speed/ cache/ram? On a "slow" disk, or one that is nearly full or one that is partitioned, it will take a great deal more ram and cache to "digest" the faster download and write it onto disk. I tend to do downloads to a separate drive. Have you got one? and can you repeat the high CPU usage when downloading / saving to the external drive? I note your drive might have 5,400 rpm, with "just" 8mB cache and 320 GB (quite a few SATA's have 7,200 rpm and 32 mB cache).
NB: If anything, I found SL more efficient, especially on my 4 year old Macbook, which is running much faster and has got more responsive after installation of (full version of) SL.
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Settingsynchost.exe high Cpu usage

Hello Everybody,
So lets get to the point.I clean installed Windows 10 Tech Preview Build 9841 x64 on my Hp pavilion g4 1303-au laptop
Specs of my laptop :
Amd a4-3330mx Radeon HD 6480g Microprocessor
6 GB DDR3 Ram 1333 Mhz
500 GB HDD
what i found problematic in this build (ie.,build 9841) was that when i first boot my laptop after clean install,i opened my task manager and found that Settingsynchost.exe was using 25-35% of cpu without doing anything.My fan was throttling so fast than
normal.I was really so pissed off with that so i retrieved back to my old win8.1 pro x64.So can anyone tell me how to fix this Settingsynchost.exe bug from tech preview because i want to see more aspects of window 10 and give my utmost regards for it.
Thank You
Sincerely,
Aman Srivastava

We have found that the information bubbles that open up in the top right hand corner of pdf documents can consume a lot of CPU, when visible for a user on our RDS servers Acrobat Reader would consume anything between 14-25% of CPU resource. This turned out to be very easy to resolve - first you can simply close the info bubble as the user, this setting is then retained for the next time any pdf documents are open. However this was not a suitable fix for the several hundred users that we have regularly connected to our various RDS farms. Instead we added the following registry settings to each users profile via our logon scripts - these disable the info bubbles and therefore prevent the high CPU usage.
KEY = HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\AVGeneral
DWORD = bReaderShouldShowInfoBubble
VALUE = 0
DWORD = bReaderShowEPDFToolsPaneInfoBubble
VALUE = 0
I hope that this information helps other users with similar High CPU issues when running Acrobat Reader.

SBS 2011 - High CPU usage - Help me Microsoft forums! You're my only hope!

My company supports a client that has a SBS 2011 server. For about the past year, we've been fighting a recurring issue with performance on this server. There are about ten local users and four remote users. The server's CPU idles at
about 60%-80% but is usally running when under *any* load from 80%-100%. If you do anything on the console, it will stay pretty much at 100%. These are not power users by any means. The server is utilized for file/printer sharing, Exchange
2010, and one flat file database application (non-SQL). SharePoint is not utilized.
Needless to say, our client is frustrated. When opening files, using their database application, or doing anything Exchange-related, there is a large amount of lag on the client side. First, here are the server's specs:
Make:Dell PowerEdge T420
OS: SBS 2011 Standard SP1
CPU: 2 - Intel Xeon E5-2407
Memory: 32GB
RAID: RAID 1 - Operating System (C:)/Data Volume (E:) | RAID 5 - Data Volume (D:)
Here is what we have tried to resolve this to finality:
* Doubled resources - Initially the server had a single physical processor and 16GB of memory. While these specs alone should have been fine, and were fine when the server was installed, we had periods of time where the server would just sit all day at
100% usage. We doubled the resources and while this seemed like it would fix the issue, we are still seeing abnormally high processor usage.
* Removed all monitoring tools, antivirus, and backup software - As part of our testing, we removed our monitoring agent (LabTech) and antivirus (GFI Vipre). Mozy is utilized for an off-site backup so that was disabled. No dice.
* Verified updates - We made absolutely sure the server was 100% patched.
* Malware/Virus/Rootkit checks - We have ran scans checking for any potential issues with security.
* Ran MBSA and MBCA to fix any issues with the server's configuration.
There is no single process which is using all of the CPU, or we would simply be able to narrow it down. Our calls to Microsoft support have yielded no answers. The last call ended with Microsoft stating that a SBS server should always be running
at high CPU usage. Meanwhile, we have many other clients with less-beefy servers, with more users, who have no issues like these.
So, I'm turning to you all. I will gladly provide logs, configuration settings, even remote assistance sessions if you all can help shed some light on what might be causing my issues.
Thank you!

Some comments/ideas:
How long was the server running after this screenshot? I ask because store.exe is only got a 1GB of RAM which is really low - it should grab most of the RAM within a few hours.
The server was up for about 12 hours. I believe an adjustment was made before to limit the Exchange memory usage.
Strange that SearchIndexer (wsearch service) is so high although that may be a startup condition.
The LT* processes seem to be a 3rd party monitoring tool - no idea why it would ever need that much CPU though (I thought you disabled this?).
We had, but we cannot go forever without monitoring our client's server. It has been pulled off in the past and results on performance are pretty much the same.
The taskmgr process run by amnet_admin has used a lot of total CPU Time. What is it? (can't see the command line).
That's the user I was logged in as when I took the screenshot. Even the task manager seems to eat up the CPU.
The sqlserver process right above it is also busy - may want to look at the command line and figure out which SQL database that is (SBS has 3 - WSUS, Sharepoint, and SBS monitoring)
I believe that's the SharePoint database. They don't currently use their site. Would you recommend a removal and reinstallation? I would not completely remove as I know SBS doesn't like you removing parts of the complete package.
Strange that vds.exe is 10% - that is the interface to the disk management interface IIRC. Perhaps your monitoring service has gone awry here - definitely lose it.
I'll see about pulling it off and I'll see if there are any improvements.
-- Al

High CPU usage when graphics card is put at work

I have a 13inch Air with 2GB RAM and 256GB with Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. All possible updates have been installed.
I noticed some tearing when trying to move program windows across the screen so I started checking the CPU usage. I saw that it is spiking to 25-35% when moving a window across the screen.When you drag down a window you can see the different copies of the top bar across the screen. Not smooth at all like on a standard PC windows system. Same issue when scrolling through webpages which spikes the cpu
I also noticed a high cpu usage when playing mkv files 25-30% while on an Atom HTPC i get a lower load playing the same file. The Air should be faster than an atom with a nvidia 9400m when playing video files.
I already tried updating the nvidia files to the latest version on their site by hacking the driver inf but this did not resolve the issue.
Has anyone experienced the same or know what could be causing the beavior?
Many thanks

Maybe my initial post was not clear so let me add some clarifications.
I have the problem with Aero disabled
I have the problem on the Apple site which does not have any flash content.
I have already hacked the lastest nvidia drivers to get them on my system which did not change anything. Can you provide a link to some other 'supported' beta drivers?
I am using the new 13 inch air so it has the newer graphics card so I would expect it to be faster than an old HTPC with a 9400m in it. I wasn't stating that my Air had a 9400m.
It would be great if someone you also do the test to check the cpu load:
- when playing a 720 mkv
- when dragging a window across the screen
Just open task manager and see if the CPU spikes.
Many thanks!

High CPU Usage on Terminalserver (Win2k3)

Hi,
at the moment we are running an Exchange 2010 SP3 in combination with Outlook 2010 (Ver. 14.0.6123.5001 32bit).
Outlook is installed on Windows 7 fat clients, but most users access their mailbox with Outlook running on a Win2k3 Terminalserver (extended support till 2016).
While the users on the fat clients don't have any problems, the thin client users experience problems with high cpu usage.
Following example:
Terminalserver, 12 users, 6 running Outlook, 2 users splitting almost the whole cpu between them (usage around 90-100%).
This makes working on that terminalserver nearly impossible.
I tried safe mode, I tried disabling their add-ins, I tried deleting their terminalserver profile to no avail.
How can I figure out what's causing this?

Hi,
Anti Virus email scanners are known to cause similar behavior, please first check if you have any Anti Virus scanner integrated with Outlook. Try to disable it, and check result.
A corrupted data file might also cause this kind of issue, try to repair your data file with Scanpst.exe tool.
Please refer to this article on how to use scanpst.exe:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/repair-outlook-data-files-pst-and-ost-HA102749454.aspx
Please also have a look at this thread, try the workarounds in it and see if issue persists:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/officeversion_other-outlook/constant-high-cpu-usage-when-outlook-open/b9a66791-ab73-4ecd-a73d-edf27102aa4e
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Ethan Hua CHN
TechNet Community Support

High CPU Usage On client application when upgrade remote SQL database

Hi,
Is anyone here encountered very high CPU usage after upgraded the database from SQL 2005 to SQL 2012? Following describes my issue.
I have my client application running on Windows 7 that access to central database (SQL 2005) on Windows server 2003 using ODBC connection, this client application basically query data and perform data insert and update. There are a number of this similar
clients connected to the database.
Due to slowness of the database server, company decided to upgrade the database server to SQL 2012 and also new hardware runing Windows Server 2012. There is no change on the client application and client hardware and the client application still using the
same ODBC connection to query, insert or update the new database server.
The problem I am now experiencing now is that my client PC where my client application running the CPU usage is very high almost hitting 100% when accessing to the central database. I am also noticed this program lsass.exe that utilized almost 40-50% of
the CPU time when client application accessing the central database.
Is anyone here know, why client PC CPU usage 100% when access to upgraded SQL 2012 database? What is lsass.exe program doing, it only appear when accessing to database server. How to reduce the CPU usage on client?
Thanks.
Chee Wee.

Hello,
After upgrading, please rebuild indexes and update statistics on the databases.
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1367/sql-server-script-to-rebuild-all-indexes-for-all-tables-and-all-databases/
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1606/execute-update-statistics-for-all-sql-server-databases/
Configure maxdop on the instance.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlsakthi/archive/2012/05/24/wow-we-have-maxdop-calculator-for-sql-server-it-makes-my-job-easier.aspx
If the above does not solve the issue, let us know.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Alberto Morillo
SQLCoffee.com

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