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  • What is Chromium doing in the background?

    From Richmond@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 20 22:30:02 2025
    This is the output from iotop:

    chromium --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension
    chromium --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension [ThreadPoolForeg]
    chromium --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension [ThreadPoolForeg]

    Some process kicks off between 9pm-10pm in the evening, and possibly
    other times, and does much disk activity. It maybe garbage collection,
    or maybe due to an extension Ghostery, but I use the same on Firefox
    without the same symptoms. This has been happening for a month or two.

    What is Chromium up to?

    6.1.0-35-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.137-1 (2025-05-07)
    x86_64 GNU/Linux

    Debian 12

    Chromium 136.0.7103.113 built on Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

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