Skype is a CPU hog on Fedora 11

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Tue Jun 30 11:33:24 UTC 2009


On 06/29/2009 06:32 PM, Robert Wuest wrote:
> On 06/27/2009 01:38 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On 06/22/2009 06:03 PM, Robert Wuest wrote:
>>   
>>> Skype was working fine on Fedora 10, but on 11 it consumes 100% of a
>>> CPU (running on a Q6600 system).  On Fedora 10, it's CPU usage was in
>>> the noise.  After a while (a couple of minutes), the lag time
>>> increases to where it is essentially unusable.  I just did an strace
>>> of a call to the skype testing service thing and I don't really see
>>> anything interesting in there.  Anybody have any ideas what could be
>>> wrong?  Something wrong with my audio maybe?
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>      
>> Is there a more recent version of Skype for F11 (x86_64) than this:
>>   skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm
>>
>>
>>    
>
> That's the latest.  It's old, but it did work like a champ for me on
> F10 and I'm thinking seriously about reverting back to F10, not just
> for skype but numerous little gotchas I've run into.  A month into
> this and I'm still not really solid.   I've got credit on skype that I
> can't use.
>
Thanks Robert.

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