On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:42 PM, stan<gryt2@xxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:03:00 -0600 > Robert Wuest <rwuestfc@xxxxxxxxx> 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. Noscript is too drastic. It prevents ANY Javascript from executing, not just embedded Flash. Today Javascript is needed for all the AJAX - DHTML goodies. You can block Flash applets, and actually launch them "on demand" (by clicking) with Flashblocker http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ FC -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
