cidaemon.exe using all memory...

[Brian]

Can anyone tell me why, after several months of normal operation,
cidaemon.exe would start utilizing most of my physical memory and 800+MB of
pagefile?
About 5 minutes after startup, my system comes to a crawl with little to no
response and HDD activity skyrockets.

I have scanned for viruses/trojans/worms and spyware and haven't found
anything more concerning than tracking cookies.

I have alleviated the issue by disabling the indexing service (which I
understand cidaemon.exe is part of).

Any reasons why this would occur?

Thanks for your time and attention.

 

[Guest]

Can anyone tell me why, after several months of normal operation,
cidaemon.exe would start utilizing most of my physical memory and 800+MB of
pagefile?
About 5 minutes after startup, my system comes to a crawl with little to no
response and HDD activity skyrockets.

I have scanned for viruses/trojans/worms and spyware and haven't found
anything more concerning than tracking cookies.

I have alleviated the issue by disabling the indexing service (which I
understand cidaemon.exe is part of).

Any reasons why this would occur?

Thanks for your time and attention.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm#Indexing_Service

You can shut this service off via: admin tools>services

 

[Brian]

Thanks MAP.

Strange, I disabled it and all is well, but still I'm curious as to why it
happened.

 

[Richard Urban]

Because by default it is set for manual start and, somehow, you managed to
start it - maybe during a search.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew half as much as you think you know,
You'd realize you didn't know what you thought you knew!