nacl_helper

[Kevin Fries]

I would like to get a clarification on this because Chrome and Chromium
both seem to be killing my poor old netbook.  I have an original System76
Starling.  It has been a trooper, best laptop I ever owned (and no, Carl
did not pay me for that).  I was having issues with the Ubuntu that had
been upgraded a dozen times, so I decided a reset was needed.  Since all my
other machines are Arch, I decided to put that on there.  The netbook runs
GREAT, as long as I don't try to run Chrom* on it.  Then the systems goes
completely non-responsive.  I switched to another console (ctrl-alt-F2) and
ran a top.  Both browsers were the same 10k processes taking all my CPU.
Then I would notice the Core Dump.  I turned off the dump allowing it to
just fail... this seemed to make things worse... it just failed faster, and
more often.  Once it does this it stops being able to spawn additional
processes saying it's out of memory.  Top shows memory-a-plenty.  Since it
is such an old machine, I naturally thought, oh crap, my memory is starting
to fail.  But I am starting to wonder after reading this thread, maybe it's
the Intel915 on board that is out of memory?

Anybody have any advice on this?

Kevin
On Mar 16, 2015 1:32 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The GPU is onboard in this case. It is in an old VISTA computer. it
> doesn't seem to be affecting anything, I just never noticed it before.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> the intel GPU's are pretty fair nowadays, with the HD 4200+ graphics
>> systems. but if you have a discrete GPU from nvidia or AMD as well as one
>> on the motherboard you may want to disable the onboard one. this can cause
>> issues unless your drivers can integrate it well. Laptops are a bit
>> different because of the nvidia optimus functionality to use the intel gpu
>> unless a workload of sufficient complexity comes along to require the
>> additional horsepower.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  Correct, even anything since the Core line of intel's have come with
>>> (crappy) gpu's on them in the cpu die, for better or usually worse.
>>>
>>> Intel's usually cause more harm than good sadly, thus disabling them
>>> occasionally helps if your browser is trying to offload gpu function to a
>>> chronically dysfunctional gpu (or driver).
>>>
>>> -mb
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/16/2015 12:19 PM, Rusty Ramser wrote:
>>>
>>>  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
>>> <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).
>>>
>>>
>>>   :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
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