nacl_helper

[Rusty Ramser]

What kind of system are you using, Mike?  Even if you don’t have a desktop PC with a high-powered Nvidia or Radeon GPU card plugged into the motherboard, your system will have some type of GPU.  If you don’t have an add-on card, it will probably be provided by a (usually weak) on-board Intel HD type of GPU.

 

 

From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 12:14
To: Mike Butash; Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: nacl_helper

 

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




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




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On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com> > wrote:

yeahhhh that's kinda what I figured from my duckduckgo search.




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On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:36 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com <mailto: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?


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