<div dir="ltr">but I have no gpu (I don't think).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>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.<br>
      <br>
      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.<br>
      <br>
      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).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
      <br>
      -mb</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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      On 03/14/2015 02:51 PM, koder wrote:<br>
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      The difference seems to be whether or not you intended it to run.<br>
      there is also some issue with nacl and nacl-helper that comes
      about with Google's development process. I did not understand the
      references. <br>
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      <div>On 03/14/2015 02:47 PM, Michael
        Havens wrote:<br>
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        <div dir="ltr">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.</div>
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            <div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:38 PM,
            Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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              <div dir="ltr">yeahhhh that's kinda what I figured from my
                duckduckgo search.</div>
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                  <div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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                    <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at
                      2:36 PM, koder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iscreamkid@gmail.com" target="_blank">iscreamkid@gmail.com</a>></span>
                      wrote:<br>
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                        <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> it seems
                          to be a part of chromium<br>
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                          HM<span><br>
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                            <div>On 03/14/2015 02:21 PM, Michael Havens
                              wrote:<br>
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                              <div dir="ltr">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?<br clear="all">
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                                  <div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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