Adobe Reader program uses huge memory in OS X. How to reduce it or any settings to change?
Lately I started to do alot of research on paper works for University projects. Most of the downloaded papers are based on .pdf extension. As usual, I read these files via Safari or open it separetly via Adobe Reader itself.
While working on Papers, I noticed that my machine's memory spiked to 7 GB ++ almost reaches 8GB of memory usage. This is unusual. At one point, I ran Java programs and simulatenous opened up many pdf format files format on my safari browser, it went unresponsive and unable to use keyboard & trackpad. Had no choice, had to hard reboot.
Contacted Apple support and reported the issue on unresponsive to them. They provided following KB to troubleshoot further:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4636
After that, I never encounter unresponsive issue but I have question Adobe reader program. This program uses huge amount of memory and I would like to know if there is anyway I can reduce the usage of memory of Adobe reader. Or is this normal?
Also, had an issue with pdf page scrolling, it is very slow.
Thank you,
Soma
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), 8 GB Ram i5 processor