What is the chromium_pid_files directory, and why is it empty?

[david_chiaramon]

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Last tested: Oct 4, 2019
 

The chromium_pid_files directory in the looker directory contains any process IDs for actively-running Chromium rendering processes. It is used to kill old processes that were running during a shutdown when Looker is started back up.

It's totally fine if this directory is empty, it just means that Looker isn't processing any render jobs currently!

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