Skype eats a lot of RAM?

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bfDeveloper2012-01-15 11:48:19

Skype

bfDeveloper, 2012-01-15 11:48:19

I think that many have noticed that the latest versions of skype under Windows take up an unreasonably large amount of space in RAM. More than 100 meters in a collapsed state is a lot. Skype 4.0 also took no more than 40 meters.
Has anyone tried making it use less memory? Are there any settings or maybe True programmers wrote a patch? Something tells me that he is not supposed to eat so much, and you can take away the excess.
PS I haven't been banned in Google, but so far I've only found forums discussing the problem without any solutions.

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almazmusic, 2012-01-15
@almazmusic

To be honest, I bought ANOTHER 8GB over the weekend for 45. I do not see a problem to increase the RAM. Even 8GB for an average IT specialist (web, design, software) is more than enough.
The beeches cost about the same.

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shatimi, 2012-01-15
@shatimi

So far, the only solution I've found is to use version 4.2.0.187 on a laptop and version 3.8.0.188 on a netbook. They run under Windows 7, consume RAM quite acceptable.

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max_rip, 2012-01-15
@max_rip

Downgrade and disable updates, I did this as soon as Facebook integration appeared.
It's like off-client ICQ, each new feature brings with it new minimum requirements, only here they don't give a choice with clients.

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Igor Ivanchenko, 2012-01-15
@evgsd

in my ubuntu skype takes ~ 48mb, hanging in the tray. under windows, it is too “overdressed”, and even integration with facebook is finishing off

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homm, 2012-01-15
@homm

You are still lucky. On Macs 200 meters.

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Eternalko, 2012-01-15
@Eternalko

I'm afraid that there is no such possibility :/
It is also buggy the farther the more.
There are only two solutions. Either buy more RAM, since it's cheap today or install the old version. Which I did by the way. It doesn't run like new though.

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alpust, 2012-01-15
@alpust

There is another alternative! Install Miranda, it supports the Skype protocol, and even allows you to make calls.

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bdmalex, 2012-01-16
@bdmalex

Did you disable the supernode?

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Ekimmu, 2012-01-16
@Ekimmu

I was also somehow puzzled by this question, but I didn’t find anything better than just turning off the supernode and / or downgrading the version.

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kbp81, 2021-02-05
@kbp81

100..200M? I have 688! Just kicked him out. And FireFox generally survived up to 4G! I installed an ad blocker, it became a little easier - up to 2G.