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 Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1014384 Title: Skype crashes X server when making video call Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I upgraded to the Skype 4.0 and now whenever I make a video call after some time it crashes the X server if in full screen or throws me to the login screen if windowed. The only thing it outputs into the nohup log file is "skype: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.". I wonder if it's the Skype's fault or the X's. My system is: Linux eME640G 3.2.0-25-generic-pae #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 22:11:24 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux --- ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx Package: skype 4.0.0.7-1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic-pae 3.2.18 Tags: precise Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic-pae i686 UnreportableReason: This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again. UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1014384/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
