Re: nacl_helper

[Michael Butash]

NaCL (salt, sodium chloride) is their GL helper for local gpu acceleration.  Youtube video acceleration, gaming stuff, anything that needs hardware-ish interactions use it. It shouldn't be spawning randomly, if it is, might want to figure out what is invoking it, could be bad as gpu's do things like bitcoin generation.  Wouldn't surprise me some worm infects you and uses you to start computing hashes. I disable gpu acceleration under chrome|chromium, nothing good comes about with my ever leaving it on, oddly disabling it invokes bugs that break it more depending on your version of chrome (see ulimit issues). -mb On 03/14/2015 02:51 PM, koder wrote: The difference seems to be whether or not you intended it to run. there is also some issue with nacl and nacl-helper that comes about with Google's development process. I did not understand the references. On 03/14/2015 02:47 PM, Michael Havens wrote: oh well, along as nothing nefarious is happening with my computer all is well. the hard drive stopped running a while ago so all it seems nothing bad is happening. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: yeahhhh that's kinda what I figured from my duckduckgo search. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:36 PM, koder <iscream...@gmail.com> wrote: it seems to be a part of chromium HM On 03/14/2015 02:21 PM, Michael Havens wrote: I was sitting at my computer when my hard drive started to go crazy! So I opened a terminal and ran ps -e and all the processes appeared normal except there was one I had never seen. That one is nacl_helper. What is it? :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

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