but I have no gpu (I don't think). :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Michael Butash 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 wrote: > >> yeahhhh that's kinda what I figured from my duckduckgo search. >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:36 PM, koder 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >