CGPDFService constantly running

[Spectrum]

About a week ago I updated a mac mini 2018 i7 to Sequoia (from Catalina, that I now regret upgrading from...)
Following the update, I had to rebuild the search index because neither Alfred nor Spotlight could find anything.

I now have a constant CGPDFservice that won't die. I've left my Mac on for days and this process just won't ever quit. Force-quitting it, and it comes back a few seconds later. It is always consuming one core maxed out, and making the system feel kind of unresponsive - and makes the mac mini quite hot).
How can I get rid of this thing?!?

 

[zevrix]

Looks like it's a common issue, maybe you'll find any solutions here:

ð "cgpdfservice" cpu - Google Search

www.google.com

 

[Patrice Brousseau]

Spotlight indexing PDF docs I think. Maybe try to disable and then, reenable Spotlight on this drive again?

 

[Spectrum]

I think I narrowed this down to a colleague updating lots of PDFs in a synced folder...
I've now made that folder online only and it seems to have gone away...

 

[learjet]

CGPDFservice is constantly causing background CPU load on my machine (MBA 13 M3, latest Sequoia release) and seemingly never stops indexing. Does anyone have the same problem? How can I fix that?

 

[bogdanw]

How can I fix that?

Try System Settings - Spotlight - uncheck PDF documents.

 

[learjet]

Has that solved the issue for you? According to various internet reports, unchecking that setting doesn't change anything?

 

[blmatthews]

Turning off PDF Documents in Spotlight's settings hasn't changed anything for me, and while I do have some PDFs in my iCloud drive, it's only a few and not very big.