I have had this problem with Skype (newer versions?) on Ubuntu 10.04 ever since trying to use video in calls. My symptoms are that skype becomes sluggish a few seconds after enabling video. The video frame rate slows down and eventually the audio breaks up too. The whole system also becomes very unresponsive until I quit skype.
I previously noticed that swap was being depleted and assumed that skype had a memory leak and just avoided trying to send video (I believe that receiving video does not cause this problem). What I observed yesterday (using System Monitor) during a test video call was that swap space was being consumed but that it was the Xorg process that was getting larger and larger over time ... I now believe that swap is being consumed by Xorg grabbing more and more virtual memory. I cancelled the video sending just before swap ran out and was able to quit skype and carry on working but the swap space wasn't released until I terminated Xorg by logging out. I wonder if others can confirm this consumption of virtual memory / swap space while using skype video? If so, I wonder if this problem might be caused by Xorg trying to cache/map every video frame in (virtual) memory? I have seen a problem like this in the past with animated xscreensaver patterns left running for several days - then it seemed like the X server saved the frames in backing store. Steve Platt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1014384 Title: Skype crashes X server when making video call To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1014384/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
