Unsolved what is a crashpad?

[joccol]

what is a crashpad?

[Pathduck]

@joccol Hello, see:

"Crashpad is a crash-reporting system."

https://chromium.googlesource.com/crashpad/crashpad/+/refs/heads/main/README.md
https://chromium.googlesource.com/crashpad/crashpad/+/HEAD/handler/crashpad_handler.md
https://www.chromium.org/developers/crash-reports

Basically it's just the process responsible for creating crash dumps, written in the Crashpad directory of the Vivaldi profile when a browser process (a tab for instance) crashes.

There are some OS differences apparently, for instance on Windows I have just a single process with the argument --type=crashpad-handler. But no processes with the --crashpad-handler-pid that you're seeing.

I'm thinking this is just standard stuff and nothing users should be worried about.

[joccol]

Why so many? Crash seems to indicate that something is not working right. I think that it may be slowing Vivaldi down.

[Pathduck]

@joccol said in what is a crashpad?:

I think that it may be slowing Vivaldi down.

It's not.

"On Linux, a registration is a connected socket pair between a client process and the Crashpad handler. This socket pair may be private or shared among many client processes."
https://chromium.googlesource.com/crashpad/crashpad/+/refs/heads/main/doc/overview_design.md

If you look at your Vivaldi processes you will find one with the argument --type=crashpad-handler and all the other processes refers to this process with --crashpad-handler-pid=<pid>