I've had IIS and the Indexing Service running on my system for quite a while now. However, just recently, I noticed that my system was slowing down frequently, coming to near-standstills for an entire minute at a time. Once, before this happened, I ran the Task Manager and MS Process Viewer; I then saw (with horror) that my memory usage leapt from the usual ~255 MB to 1.699 GB! It was all attributed to cidaemon.exe, a subprocess of the Indexing Service. What the heck's going on? I need Indexing for my site, but I don't need cidaemon to blow up my box. Does anybody know how to remedy this? Or is anybody else going through this? Please help!!!

The only suggestion I have is to move your web files (or whatever it is that you need indexed) to a seperate drive (or HDD) and have indexing on that drive alone. This would allow you to turn off the useless indexing of the the OS files.

If your site is running on a 2000 server, you can disable indexing of for everthing except your web site. -- this is done through the Computer Manager / Indexing Service / System. Then delete all of the directories that you don't need to be indexed. However, it would appear that your site is running on a Unix server with Apache installed. In this case, you wouldn't have to worry about the CIDAEMON taking up any memory.

Went to the Microsoft Website and found that Win2000 had a program that would delete the cidameon.exe when its' memory consumption went over 45 Meg. Since you need indexing, an XP version might be what you need.

I'm having the same problem. I'm running WinXP Pro and cidaemon.exe is devouring my resources without mercy. I cannot pinpoint when the problem started. The most recent changes i've made to the system are: installing kazaa, installing 7 or so Windows hotfixes, installing Mozilla 1.0 RC2, Clony XXL, and getting a Klex Worm virus (the symptoms of which do not include the problem i'm having). I've since eradicated the virus, uninstalled the aforementioned programs including the hotfixes, tweaked my virtural memory several different ways, and removed all items from my startup group. I've even done a repair installation of windows. The problem persists, but not in safe mode. What else am I to do? I'd really like to repair and learn something from this one, as I am tired of formatting and reinstalling whenever something goes wrong with windows. My system hardware includes: P3 667MHz, 512 MB SDRAM, 20GB HDD w/3 partitions (this has the C: drive), 80GB HDD with 4 partitions attached to a RAID card(this drive is practically empty). Should I disable the indexing service? I thought this was beneficial for system performance...

...Disabling indexing service for all drives has not resolved the problem, though it did seem to delay the amount of time it took to become a problem...