Skype is a CPU hog on Fedora 11

[Robert Wuest]

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.