Skype is a CPU hog on Fedora 11

[Robert Wuest]

On 06/22/2009 04:42 PM, stan wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:03:00 -0600
> Robert Wuest<rwuestfc at wuest.org>  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
>>
>>      
> I don't know about skype, but the flash on some sites is so demanding
> (ill-formed?) that it can use all the resources in the machine unless it
> is curtailed.  Is it possible you have your browser on one of those
> sites, and it only appears to be skype?  One that went hog wild for me
> was yahoo finance.  I ended up using noscript and turning it off. End
> of problem.
>
>    
I have that problem with flash, too (in F9, F10 and F11), but this is 
definitely skype.