Re: [cros-discuss] several tasks in Task Manager, did not have them before

[Mike Frysinger]

those all seem like browser things, so probably want to ask on that group instead

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, 13:38 cir yxam <cir1...@gmail.com> wrote:

hi,

I'm observing / have several tasks in Task Manager which I did not have them before, these tasks are;

1- Spare Renderer

2- Renderer

3- utility: storage service

4- Plugin Broker: Shockwave Flash [ I disabled flash ]

5- utility: network service

6- router service

I did ask my Q in chromebook community, but expert [ platinum ] there could not provide any help / explanations, they referred me to this group to ask my Q here,

as far as my understanding go, I could not find any explanation WHY & for WHAT reasons & ARE THEY legitimate services, when searching using GOOGLE engine ?

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[Joe Mason]

I'm surprised to hear you haven't had these "before". These are all long standard Chromium process types.

1- Spare Renderer

Chromium tries to put each web site in its own process, as much as possible, for security. (The actual rules for how sites are assigned to processes are complicated, because there are a lot of tradeoffs to make between security and performance.) The "spare renderer" is a process that's kept around ready to load a site into, for faster startup.

2- Renderer

This is a process that's currently loaded one or more web sites.

3- utility: storage service

This process manages access to web features that store data on disk (eg. Local Storage, IndexedDB). At least, that's what I assume from the name. I'm not an expert on this.

4- Plugin Broker: Shockwave Flash [ I disabled flash ]

Chrome 88 has Flash removed entirely so I assume when you upgrade to that, this will go away completely. I'm surprised this was loaded with Flash disabled in older versions, but maybe it's normal to keep the broker loaded but just not doing anything.

5- utility: network service

Manages the HTTP stack. When you go to http://example.com, this process will contact the example.com server and fetch the bytes from the net, then pass them off to whichever renderer process handles example.com for parsing.

6- router service

This one I don't know.

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