Bridge processing uses CPU resources and slows down Photoshop on another network computer

Question

I've got a strange feature or a bug, I am not sure when it started happening but it wasn't the case a few months earlier but happens now repeatedly.

Every time I use Bridge and it's processing files, generating previews, exporting, running camera raw etc, somehow it manages to use CPU resources of another windows 10 computer on the same network as mine and slows down that other computer averall, bringing Photoshop on it to a halt making it impossible to work on the socond machine while one is processing. The task manager shows extensive CPU usage on that other computer while mine is processing. Is that a feature or a bug? Is it photoshop or windows related? I don't evere remember having it before. How to fix or disable it? Thank you.

Mylenium · Answer

Bridge doesn't use distributed computing and neither do by extension the underlying PS libraries, so whatever is happening probably more likely has to do with network issues, storage overload on the second computer or similar. Even if they just both access a shared NAS or local server that could have ill effects when one machine is processing stuff while the other also tries to access the same folder. In any case, your info is way too unspecific to make any sense of it. We'd need details on the file types, where they are stored, what kind of processing you do, the actual specs of the computers, network settings and so on to even come close to a guess. As a start, also check which process is actually gobbling up your second computer by having a look at Task Manager/ Resource Monitor.

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