CF8 - cfimage rotate causing high CPU utilization

[Dr Axe]

CF8.0.1 Cumulative hotfix 4, if I try to rotate an image with CFIMAGE or it's related functions, CPU utilization climbs to close to 100% then never drops below 50% again until I restart the service. It exhibits this behavior on two of my CF servers, my developer and my staging servers.

Here's the code:

<!--- make new image file in memory --->

<cfset myImage=ImageNew("",200,18)>

<!--- draw some text --->

<cfset ImageDrawText(myImage,i,3,15)>

<!--- rotate it note: either method below yields the high utilization--->

<!---<cfset ImageRotate(myImage, '90','bicubic')>--->

<cfimage action="rotate" angle="90"  source="#myImage#" name="myIMageRotated">

<!--- display the image in the browser --->

<cfimage source="#myIMageRotated#" action="writeToBrowser">

Any help would be appreciated

[Guest]

I'm having the same issue! I'm building a custom graph and I'm using rotated text images as labels for an axes. I'm experiencing a very high cpu utilization after running the code with imageRotate(). It still lingers even after the image is produced and like Dr Axe said it doesn't go away until you restart the coldfusion application server. Please help! This is a serious bug.