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kalpakrg

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Registered: 2014-05-05

Posts: 6

Pepper Flash Player - I/O on startup and persistent network connection

I have been noticing this for a while,

libpepflashplayer.so processes appear at top on iotop after startup and I can see persistent connections being maintained by libpepflashplayer.so to some servers throughout.

> netstat -np --tcp | grep libpepflash

tcp        0      0 192.168.1.191:50768     173.194.36.6:443        ESTABLISHED 3273/libpepflashpla
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.191:49814     74.125.68.188:5228      ESTABLISHED 3273/libpepflashpla
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.191:39564     173.194.36.31:443       ESTABLISHED 3273/libpepflashpla
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.191:58511     173.194.36.0:443        ESTABLISHED 3273/libpepflashpla
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.191:57239     173.194.36.13:443       ESTABLISHED 3273/libpepflashpla
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.191:59386     173.194.36.20:443       ESTABLISHED 3273/libpepflashpla
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.191:60517     173.194.36.23:80        ESTABLISHED 3273/libpepflashpla
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.191:39688     173.194.36.15:443       ESTABLISHED 3273/libpepflashpla
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.191:42442     173.194.36.7:443        ESTABLISHED 3273/libpepflashpla

All the IPs seem to belong to Google.

Has anybody else noticed this? Anything to be concerned about?

I am using Chromium (chromium 39.0.2171.95-1) and Pepper Flash (chromium-pepper-flash 13.0.0.214-2) and I am not viewing any site using Flash while doing netstat and iotops.

Last edited by kalpakrg (2014-12-24 04:42:40)

trapanator

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-08-10

Posts: 151

Re: Pepper Flash Player - I/O on startup and persistent network connection

this is very interesting! On my netbook I noticed that Chromium at startup is going to 100% CPU for one minute.... maybe it's pepperflash?