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@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@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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