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Averaging 700-800% CPU usage on Adobe Bridge 2023

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December 8, 2022
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Greetings,

I'm seeing extraordinarily high CPU usage on Adobe Bridge, especially when "idling" - no active process are being run after several hours on the same folder. Attached is a screenshot with relevant information. Any insight would be appreciated.

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Correct answer PaulieDC

OK, so I just found a WEIRD solution for Adobe Bridge 2023... it works and not sure why. If I start up on Bridge in the Essentals view, the CPU hits 50% and temps go to 85C (Win 11 Pro, 12th gen proc). SO, at the bottom of the Bridge window, grab the slider that changes the view percentage, and drag it all the way left, so your thumbnails are super tiny. Your CPU should drop to 0.2% or so. Seriously. Then for me, I dragged the slider back up to about 40% which works for me size-wise, and it's holding steady quite nicely. Bridge is sitting there nicely at less than 1%. I guessed it: PROGRAMMING ISSUE AND CODE NOT TESTED WELL ENOUGH.

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Сергей31709933gh22

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https://helpx.adobe.com/ru/x-productkb/global/high_cpu_usage_cephtmlengine.html

Вот решение

Bando

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In case it helps. This seems to happen when the folder includes JPGs or MP4s from my Pixel Cell Phone. If the folder only has images or video from my CANON camera, there is no problem.

Also, if I use the Light Table workspace, the Bridge CPU usaage goes to 0%.

I also used the recomended tumbnail resize workaround, and that helped a lot.

gary_sc

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Bravo to @PaulieDC for putting together, and realizing that the size of the thumbnails may be partially, or in whole, the solution to this mystery.

As someone who's on these boards every day, looking at just about every message, it's very hard to understand why this bizarre issue hits some folks while I have never had even a smidgen of the problem. Ever.

But that is probably because I favor small thumbnails and have a large Preview Panel to really SEE the image. This screenshot shows my primary working space. FWIW, I never understood Adobe's desire to put the Preview panel as a small region off to the side. If I want to look at an image preview, I want to see it.

But, at the same time, it made the thumbnails small. I didn't care; I almost never wanted to see them large — I did not need to.

What would be very handy for everyone here and Adobe is to let others know if you have had this issue and how large your thumbnails are. The hard part is that there is no accurate measurement for the thumbnail size in Bridge. I suppose using "small," "medium," or "large" might be all that can be done.

Thanks for any reporting on this.

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Bryan Conner

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For me, the problem does not exist with the current beta version of Bridge, but it does exist with the current release version.

PaulieDCCorrect answer

Inspiring

OK, so I just found a WEIRD solution for Adobe Bridge 2023... it works and not sure why. If I start up on Bridge in the Essentals view, the CPU hits 50% and temps go to 85C (Win 11 Pro, 12th gen proc). SO, at the bottom of the Bridge window, grab the slider that changes the view percentage, and drag it all the way left, so your thumbnails are super tiny. Your CPU should drop to 0.2% or so. Seriously. Then for me, I dragged the slider back up to about 40% which works for me size-wise, and it's holding steady quite nicely. Bridge is sitting there nicely at less than 1%. I guessed it: PROGRAMMING ISSUE AND CODE NOT TESTED WELL ENOUGH.

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Colin5C6E

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I have an i9 running at 4.8GHz, 10 cores, and Bridge was using 50% of my CPU... why not use my GPU?.... Your solution dropped it to 0.3%.... BRAVO!!!!

And shame on Adobe.

artichoked

Inspiring

Clearly, something is wrong with Bridge 2023 because for the past 10+ years, I've always left Bridge open while I work every day. Now, I can't have it open for more than 20-30 seconds before my CPU fan goes crazy. I'm on a 2019 iMac (3.7 GHz 6-Core i5) with 64 GB of RAM using Ventura 13.1.

Even with all of the thumbnail settings set to "fastest", Bridge is still unusable.

PaulieDC

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So it's not just Windows, great. That means an intentional code change that clearly didn't not get tested.

PECourtejoie

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HEllo, @anthonys57530656 let me add the information you added in another discussion:

"The memory leak is a new thing that came up this week. Nothing special that I haven't done for years on prevoius versions of Bridge. In both instances, no active processses were being run, the system was "idle" - Bridge was open to about 4-5 content tabs showing thumbnails JPGs, PNGs, and PSD files. Again, nothing crazy that I haven't done for the past 15 years of using Bridge."

Do you have raw files? is ACR set to develop all jpegs? there was an update this week, so the issue might not be constrained to Bridge, just trying to find relevant info. (asking this as another user reported issues when developing 1000s of NEF files from a Z9 (45MPX camera)

Did you notice such huge memory use last week? What has changed?

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anthonys57530656Author

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Greetings @PECourtejoie,

Absolutely no RAW files being used - just run of the mill graphic design files and proceses. Lots of PSDs/PSBs/JPGs/AI. Only caveat maybe that I do utlize Cloud Storage, in this case Google Drive being set to "Stream" so lots of files being downloaded from the cloud on demand. Thanks!

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Lumigraphics

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I can see Google Drive being a problem. Adobe doesn't support cloud services and we see reports constantly about conflicts with them.

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