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So, I went ahead re-read your post more carefully; you've produced a lot of interesting observations.

I am also going to include some referenced URLs here with the intent of sharing a solution (in no way will it be advertising or promoting other software as per the off-topic discussion earlier):

The first thing I would like to address is that from a memory leak POV, if you really want to plunge in that area you will have to try and produce  a benchmark environment between a computer runnuing Windows 10, a computer running a well known working Linux distribution on the same hardware as your Windows 10 machine,  and/or additionally try the same scenario on a Mac.

This would be a real objective approach to see the behavior(s) of a possible memory leak when the software in questions is deployed as a file compression tool.

But besides that being a point in all of this, if you still like to catch a possible memory leak  in your Windows 10 you need to download  the WinDbg app from the Microsoft WebApp Store and learn how to use it in order to really analyze different memory dumps that could be related to the program(s) that you suspect are causing the heaps or leaks, plus the same should be considered in the hardware aspects of that system which are continuously interacting with the Internet,  your software apps, and memory allocations via device drivers instructins and BIOS settings).

To download the WinDbg app

Now, starting from the last line of your post to the beginning of this thread you asked

"Any suggestions? I hoped there was an option to run it via batch (command-line) but didn't find this option in Adobe Acrobat."

And this is the question  that was the question that was most relevant to me:

In the past, Adobe Acrobat Distiller used to be downloaded as a separate program from Adobe Acrobat Reader and Pro products.

At least that used to be true for me when using debian-based linux distributions in some of my work computers (and this was before Adobe discontinued the support for Open Source versions of Adobe Acrobat products).

As for the paid subscription licensing model, I don't know if  a user can try to install  a more recent version of Acrobat and be able to make it to work, if in combination or by adding  additional open source software like CrossOver,  Play on Linux and/or Wine; This, however,  could be tedious if not worse than what you are trying to figure out right now, and it also  may violate the most current licensing agreements ( and no vendor customer support  of course).

The reason I mentioned earlier about my prior experience with installing the Distiller as a separate product in a Linux distribution is as follows:

"How do I convert a File to .pdf using a .BAT file"

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/892616

The thread described above  goes hand in hand with the fact that you also mentioned   trying to use Ghostscript to circumvent the problem.

I am no programmer, but from what I am reading you may be able to create your own batch script (.BAT) in a text file to run it in your Windows computer;  and the cool thing about batch scripting  is that you may be able to  incorporate the postscript to pdf tool (ps2pdf) in that batch script.

ps2pdf, should be already bundled with the Ghostscript conversion tools suite that you've downloaded; I am unsure if, when you say that you have used the Ghostscript you are doing it via GUI or command line though.

I am stressing the difference between GUI or CLI because from further reading it is documented  that you can get fast compression results without sacrificing image quality if you use the ps2pdf tool in combination with the Adobe Acrobat Distiller parameters.

You can try the following guide from Windows or a Linux computer and compare which one results in better performance to your situation.

For a good simple guide and tutorial Creating PDF files with ps2pdf | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

For a list of Adobe Acrobat Distiller Parameters that you can use in combination with ps2pdf check in here:

ps2pdf: PostScript-to-PDF converter

and a how-to on  compatibility switch https://linux.die.net/man/1/ps2pdf

Understood. Read you load and clear, and thank you for taking the time to clarify so thoruoghly.

Hello Dave Merchant,

I am federal government employee  and due to the “attempts to bypass the moderation system by obfuscating web addresses will get you banned” notice that you posted back in your message, I would like to take this opportunity to establish with no animosity a positive rapport for the record.

I actually read the Terms of Use that you linked in your reply which is referenced by clicking on the link you provided or by typing this URL address  https://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-7044 in a web browser.

The link you provided in your notice is not an obfuscated URL; I actually understood very clearly what a brand new user should abide to when posting information in these Adobe forums.

I am also very clear about not advertising 3^rd party products (even though that in this particular thread it was a genuine attempt to help another fellow user in the community without asking to get paid for offering help).

This also  includes the Adobe General Terms of Use, which is annexed in the Terms of Use (and I also read it in an attempt  to understand other legal binding issues)  found here: https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html

To be as clear as I can,  I  didn’t find in any of the documents mentioned above what the Adobe forums consider as obfuscating when you type an address like this:

H T T P: / / www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html

And because of the actual definition of URL obfuscation out there in the WorldWide Web, my inquiry is more of an observation to bring forward to the Moderators ‘ attention.

According to three different online sources,  the definitions are  shown below:

Webopedia: “By Vangie Beal”

Also called a hyperlink trick, an obfuscated URL is a type of attack where the real URL that a user is directed to is obfuscated - or concealed - to encourage the user to click-through to the spoof Web site.

TECHNOPEDIA DEFINITION:

Attackers usually use a common misspelling technique where they misspell a domain name to trick users into visiting. These obfuscated URLs can be a cause of malware entering a user’s computer system.

URL obfuscation is used together with spamming, redirecting users using a misleading URL that leads to a malicious site

F-Secure DEFINITION

An obfuscated URL is a URL that has been modified to conceal the legitimate location of a web-based resource, such as a website or server.

Is this is what the Adobe Forums  moderators discover during the course of extensive search and backtracking the “offending” user’s online activity ?

In any case, the intentional misspelling of the web site address would still need to match a defined IP address that redirects the user to that specific web server. (please correct me if I am wrong).

In other words, if we go by the online definitions of URL Obfuscation, when a user who is providing help to another user is whacked with a notice like the one you posted  about URL obfuscation, that moderator better backup with evidence that such user was actually trying to obfuscate an URL with the intention to exploit other users, mislead, attack, spam, phish, and/or scam.

In the face to face world,  this could be looked more like  a slanderous accusation, where the user in question would loose any grounds to prove anything in its defense as he/she gets profiled by the moderating authority.

Maybe this should be brought to the legal team’s attention so that the Terms of Use can offer in greater detail  what URL obfuscation  is meant in the Adobe community  forums.

In the slide shown, you can see a clear example of no moderation whatsoever in the following thread (probably because there is no URL quoting involved, yet it is still inappropriate):

I posted something back and the content was moderated and deleted.

In short, I was trying to suggest, for you to try  PDF Utilities, PDF Formatter.

It has batch script capability, is fast and it is free, and it does not require adobe products to be installed for it to work.

I had additional  information for you posted here but it seems like it was deleted.

All questions seem to answered . I don't know if all your PDF files that need to be optimized are just for  a large print or if they are actually PDF forms with calculated fields and interactive forms and such.

If your file optimization is just to reduce file size to accomplish a bulk press quality print, for example, then I have to ask if you have tried saving the pdf files as encapsulated postscript?

What if , just what if... if instead you disable the PDF Optimizer capability and  use a batch script to convert your PDF files  to EPS . And depending on how you are able to configure the settings for the actual "saving as" file conversion, a file size reduction is achieved.

You would still need the optimizer plugin installed in your Acrobat product to achieve the example suggested above. The following information  I found it to be very interesting:

This tool is commercial though : AutoBatch™ plug-in and in order  to add it to your Acrobat as a plugin you need to get it from here:  h t t p s://www.evermap.com/Tutorial_ABT_BatchOptimizingPDF.asp

More resourceful info here: h t t p s://www.prepressure.com/library/file-formats/eps

The problem still remains. At the end of the day , when using it with Acrobat it wil converted back to PDF if you open your EPS files with it.

In any case, it is still worth trying and opening your EPS files with an EPS file viewer, then print your files to hard copies (if that is what you are trying to achieve with your PDF files of course).

Acrobat is not really built to process that many files, as you saw.

From my experience, around 500 files is the most it can handle in a single operation (depending on the file size, complexity, amount of memory available, etc.). This might be even more limited if the files first have to be downloaded from the cloud.

And no, it can't be done via the command-line, either.

Does it always stop after 250 documents - even when you process a different subset of your documents?

Acrobat’s action feature is not robust enough to run an unlimited number of jobs. There are resource leaks in Acrobat (at least that’s What it looks like from the outside) that create a limit of how many documents you can process in one batch. What this number is depends on the documents and the processing steps in your action. Try to limit your batches to 200 or even 100 documents and see if that makes a difference.

There is no option to run an action via the command line.