I was hoping that the new update to SmartWare would provide some relief from the CPU resource hogging.
Alas, it is still a disaster.
The software takes an eternity to update the catalogues and the metadata.
I gave it over 3 hours to settle down after performing a category backup, but no luck, it just contined to use up to 80% of CPU.
I have had to turn off the service to regain normal operation of my PC
(Windows 7 64 bit 4 GB ram)