Issue 46 in omaha: Google Updater Should be Friendlier

[om...@googlecode.com]

Status: New
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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium

New issue 46 by mpear...@chromium.org: Google Updater Should be Friendlier
http://code.google.com/p/omaha/issues/detail?id=46

Re-opening bug 41 as requested.
http://code.google.com/p/omaha/issues/detail?id=41
Last comment:
> Feel free to reopen the bug if you can actually isolate
> Omaha doing something unfriendly to the system :)
Reopened. :)
because I have evidence that the previous answer is incorrect.

This setup.exe annoyed my dad again a couple of days ago so he installed
Process Explorer. Then the setup.exe happened again yesterday. Here's
what Process Explorer reported:
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GoogleUpdate.exe GoogleUpdate.exe 3172 7,452 K
3,472 K Google Installer Google Inc.
22.0.1229.94_22.0.1229.92_chrome_updater.exe
22.0.1229.94_22.0.1229.92_chrome_updater.exe 2948 536 K 156
K
setup.exe setup.exe 3944 66.15 236,832 K 424,276 K
Google Chrome Google Inc.
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Clearly this setup.exe is coming from Google with Chrome.

The problem is that setup.exe is running at "Priority - Normal - 8".

Also, immediately after he told me about this, I asked him to check
about:version. It reports Google Chrome 22.0.1229.94 (Official Build
161065) m, which is the stable update we pushed yesterday.

This evidence (the signature of setup.exe, the fact that immediately
afterward my father's Chrome browser running an updated version) indicates
that this is a google process.

[om...@googlecode.com]

Comment #1 on issue 46 by keanan.s...@gmail.com: Google Updater Should be
Friendlier
http://code.google.com/p/omaha/issues/detail?id=46

Further details:

My experience matches this users, and, when leaving the process unmolested
for an extended period of time, it appears to complete and chrome reports
it's been updated in the UI, leading me to believe even more strongly that
this is, in fact, part of the Chrome update.

I wonder if this is perhaps some embedded interior installer launched from
within the Google update proper?

Note that my machine is quite slow (It's a legacy XP machine) and so I'm
sure my problems are exacerbated by it's slow-ness. I have caught my
windows 7 behaving more slowly while updating chrome, but the effect is
much less pronounced, and very short-lived.

[om...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 46 by uk.dam...@gmail.com: Google Updater Should be
Friendlier
https://code.google.com/p/omaha/issues/detail?id=46

Main problem from my perspective is that these updates are completely
silent. I expect my computer to be less responsive when it's performing
some software install/update, but when I don't even know about it (much
less initiated or approved it) I just find my computer is struggling for no
good reason.

Experienced this multiple times on Windows 7 with Chrome + Drive installed.
Not sure if exacerbated by having many long-lived tabs open in Chrome, but
sometimes the updates are very intensive on my system - i.e. sometimes to
the point where I can only see GoogleUpdate.exe chewing up CPU in task
manager, but the system is otherwise virtually unresponsive.

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