Adobe CEF Helper has led to times of crashes

At least in MacOS version, Adobe CEF helper has a memory leak in it. It seems to never release the memory it takes. If you don't ever boot your machine, it will take all the memory your machine has and will eventually crash the whole system. Certain usage will probably make it happen earlier.

Disclaimer: I'm no way related to Adobe, and I know nothing about their software practices. I'm just a software developer who got annoyed when Adobe CEF helper hogged too much memory, while it did nothing, and then I did some debugging. I know there are good programmers in Adobe, but these kind of problems is no ones responsibility it's never fixed. This particular memory leak problem can be traced to at least 2012, so I wouldn't recommend to hold ones breath while waiting a fix.

P.S. I just killed the Adobe CEF process from my Mac, because it took 4 Gigabytes of memory.

this problem led to my laptop's shutdown for four times, and at that time no Adobe Softwares were running, no matter on foreground or in background opened by users.

yes one more time

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800424aa3a): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f870f162a, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000028, CR3: 0x0000000168fbb14a, CR4: 0x00000000003626e0
RAX: 0x0000000041057000, RBX: 0x000c000100080001, RCX: 0x403a97b16101000e, RDX: 0x0000000000000000
RSP: 0xffffff9137d4b8d0, RBP: 0xffffff9137d4b960, RSI: 0x403a90006101000e, RDI: 0x0000000040260000
R8: 0x0011000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0xffffff802b8e2130, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0x0008000000000001, R13: 0x000c000000080000, R14: 0x00000000403a9000, R15: 0x00000000403a97b1
RFL: 0x0000000000010206, RIP: 0xffffff7f870f162a, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000000
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000028, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x0, PL: 0, VF: 0

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff9137d4b330 : 0xffffff800411f5cd
0xffffff9137d4b380 : 0xffffff8004258b05
0xffffff9137d4b3c0 : 0xffffff800424a68e
0xffffff9137d4b410 : 0xffffff80040c5a40
0xffffff9137d4b430 : 0xffffff800411ec97
0xffffff9137d4b530 : 0xffffff800411f087
0xffffff9137d4b580 : 0xffffff80048c27cc
0xffffff9137d4b5f0 : 0xffffff800424aa3a
0xffffff9137d4b770 : 0xffffff800424a738
0xffffff9137d4b7c0 : 0xffffff80040c5a40
0xffffff9137d4b7e0 : 0xffffff7f870f162a
0xffffff9137d4b960 : 0xffffff7f86c3251e
0xffffff9137d4b9a0 : 0xffffff7f86c32a4f
0xffffff9137d4b9d0 : 0xffffff7f86c4167d
0xffffff9137d4ba10 : 0xffffff7f870f6bdc
0xffffff9137d4ba40 : 0xffffff7f86c3000b
0xffffff9137d4bac0 : 0xffffff800485695e
0xffffff9137d4bb10 : 0xffffff8004854be7
0xffffff9137d4bb60 : 0xffffff800485dcb3
0xffffff9137d4bca0 : 0xffffff80042082b2
0xffffff9137d4bdb0 : 0xffffff8004125328
0xffffff9137d4be10 : 0xffffff80040fbcc5
0xffffff9137d4be70 : 0xffffff8004112aa2
0xffffff9137d4bf00 : 0xffffff8004230d05
0xffffff9137d4bfa0 : 0xffffff80040c6226
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2(438.5.4)[D695D9DA-7C20-35D6-910F-E7A332A0F515]@0xffffff7f86c29000->0xffffff7f86cedfff
dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleMobileFileIntegrity(1.0.5)[E35D090D-DB9E-3DD0-9723-651FA730AA13]@0xffffff7f852da000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[BE052F4D-9B80-3FCD-B36D-BACB7DEE0DF2]@0xffffff7f84b31000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(269.11)[F1E7389D-2807-3C5D-8A7F-5422542E867F]@0xffffff7f85717000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(576.1)[B1C0006F-E1F5-37D9-9548-5F918E92B422]@0xffffff7f8562d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily(47)[1FB49168-0280-3F04-A99A-F830C915E994]@0xffffff7f85019000
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelBDWGraphics(14.0.6)[6139D437-2098-316E-967B-4692BAA82C5B]@0xffffff7f870a9000->0xffffff7f87142fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[BE052F4D-9B80-3FCD-B36D-BACB7DEE0DF2]@0xffffff7f84b31000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(269.11)[F1E7389D-2807-3C5D-8A7F-5422542E867F]@0xffffff7f85717000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(576.1)[B1C0006F-E1F5-37D9-9548-5F918E92B422]@0xffffff7f8562d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2(438.5.4)[D695D9DA-7C20-35D6-910F-E7A332A0F515]@0xffffff7f86c29000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Adobe CEF Helper

Mac OS version:
19F101

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 19.5.0: Tue May 26 20:41:44 PDT 2020; root:xnu-6153.121.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 54F1A78D-6F41-32BD-BFED-4381F9F6E2EF
Kernel slide: 0x0000000003e00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8004000000
__HIB text base: 0xffffff8003f00000
System model name: MacBookPro12,1 (Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6)
System shutdown begun: NO
Panic diags file available: YES (0x0)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 5418090082515
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