nacl_helper

[Michael Havens]

but I have no gpu (I don't think).

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

>  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 <bmike1 at 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 <iscreamkid at 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~(-:
>>>
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