Why Does My Chrome Have a 90GB PNG File in Virtual Mem for Whispernet Proxy? (imgur.com) 3 points by reilly3000 10y ago ↗ HN
[–] detaro 10y ago ↗ Apparently that's a PNaCl program, that for some reason got a .PNG extension: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...and whispernet-proxy doesn't show in the list because it is a extension that ships with chrome.https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/3qLYze...It seems to have to do something with talking to nearby devices (by audio channels?) via the copresence API:https://developer.chrome.com/apps/copresencehttps://codereview.chromium.org/438513002/That's what I could glean from a quick google search...
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 16.6 ms ] threadand whispernet-proxy doesn't show in the list because it is a extension that ships with chrome.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/3qLYze...
It seems to have to do something with talking to nearby devices (by audio channels?) via the copresence API:
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/copresence
https://codereview.chromium.org/438513002/
That's what I could glean from a quick google search...