Verity vspider.exe process never stops and sucks system resources

[Guest]

I'm running a scheduled task to index a site on a Win2k3 server running CF8. I'm having a problem where the vspider.exe process never stops and sucks up system resources, slowing my whole server down. It actually is doing quite a bit of work... I'm directing the output into a log file, and I'm getting 300 K of information and it seems to be walking the site just fine. But it ends up not finishing the job and running forever. I have to open the task manager to terminate the process and then the server runs better.

Any ideas?

[DaSpaz]

I have the same issue, but have not been able to find any solution on the Adobe site.  Were you able to fix your issue?

[Guest]

I have not found an answer to this problem, though it hasn't been a problem lately. I now send the output of the vspider.exe process to a log file and can check the status of the index job. I index nightly, so if the process is running at anytime, I can look at the results of the index job in my log file. This might give some clues. I have a feeling I had a corrupt index and vspider was choking. Try rebuilding your index from scratch.

[Adam Cameron.]

I don't know what might be causing this, sorry.  But one thing to consider is to not run the vspider process on the same machine as that which is serving your site.  That way, if it gets bogged down, it won't necessarily be a performance hit for everyone else trying to use your site.

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Adam