Re: Skype CPU usage usage on older macs
From: Oldham, Toby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Skype CPU usage usage on older macs Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:15:03 +0800 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Hi all, this is as much a tech note for when someone searches their archives as anything else ... it may elicit a 'well dh' response from some on the list :) . Well, not exactly duuuh, butĀ Skype won't run on a 233mhz Bondi iMac - well the app runs, and you can instant message - but voice cuts out. The iMac has 288meg of RAM and a 40gig Western Digital Hard Disk, running 10.3.5 (which runs okay, amazingly enough). I used the Activitiy monitor app to ah, monitor the cpu usage - when attempting to speak, the CPU idle time drops to -0.00. I was trying to get Skype working so my parents machine so they could have long talks with my brother over in the UK. If anyone knows the minimum mhz speed which allows Skype to run pls send me an e-mail, The skype forums are a better search bet I would think. Google is your friend, since the fora don't appear to have a search applet set up. And the mac skype specs page gives: http://www.skype.com/help/guides/skype_macosx_guide.html hth Nancy M
Re: Skype CPU usage usage on older macs
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 16:31, Nancy McIntyre wrote: The iMac has 288meg of RAM and a 40gig Western Digital Hard Disk, running 10.3.5 (which runs okay, amazingly enough). I used the Activitiy monitor app to ah, monitor the cpu usage - when attempting to speak, the CPU idle time drops to -0.00. I was trying to get Skype working so my parents machine so they could have long talks with my brother over in the UK. If anyone knows the minimum mhz speed which allows Skype to run pls send me an e-mail, You may have more luck with other VoIP technologies, rather than Skype, as if I recall correctly Skype encrypts all its data. That makes for a significant CPU overhead, and given that the voice data also needs to be encoded into a lossy format like one of the GSM codecs, the CPU requirements may be excessive. Try a basic SIP VoIP phone program if you can ... I suspect you'll have a lot more success that way. Anybody have suggestions on good SIP phone apps for OS/X? -- Craig Ringer
Re: Skype CPU usage usage on older macs
Anybody have suggestions on good SIP phone apps for OS/X? There's the open source OhPhoneX: http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/ohphoneX-docs/ohphoneX.html And the XPhone http://www.nikotel.com/software.htm which is rebadged for a number of VOIP gateway companies such as TerraCall http://www.terracall.com/ As to whether they're good or not, I have no idea :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Skype CPU usage usage on older macs
Hi all, this is as much a tech note for when someone searches their archives as anything else ... it may elicit a 'well dh' response from some on the list :) . Skype won't run on a 233mhz Bondi iMac - well the app runs, and you can instant message - but voice cuts out. The iMac has 288meg of RAM and a 40gig Western Digital Hard Disk, running 10.3.5 (which runs okay, amazingly enough). I used the Activitiy monitor app to ah, monitor the cpu usage - when attempting to speak, the CPU idle time drops to -0.00. I was trying to get Skype working so my parents machine so they could have long talks with my brother over in the UK. If anyone knows the minimum mhz speed which allows Skype to run pls send me an e-mail, I might try and track down a 2nd hand replacement iMac for them - it'd have to be under $400 though (if anyone's thinking of selling their doorstop) as that's what it would cost to install a Sonnet 600mhz + firewire G3 upgrade card. Cheers, Tobes.
