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By some weeks, I had a problem on my laptop: when Skype does the login, the ram saturates in a few seconds and the swap too. On my laptop I have a SSD disk so, it takes a few seconds to fill all the swap partition, after that skpe crashes (maybe SELinux closes it, don't know well). It happens also on my girlfriend's laptop. My girlfriend has a normal hard disk, so when swap is going to fill the computer is unusuable and she have to hard reset it. Both of use KDE 4.6.2, me 32 bit, she 64bit. One day, I was wondering about SSD writing bandwidth when saturating swap during Skype login, so before opening Skype, I opened system monitor, installed a new tab called "simple read and write hard disk information", and then started Skype. I was surprised that Skype did not use all the ram... And I noticed that every time I boot the computer, if I open this tab in system monitor, and then open Skype, the ram does not get saturated. Very strange! But this workaround does not work all the time... Which additional information can I attach to this bug? I really don't know. I am going also to contact Skype to let them know about that.
Skype is a non-free software that we don't have the source code of, and it's not in the fedora repositories. Closing, can't fix. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers