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[Alan Goodman <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I have skype installed, configured to sign in automatically and start
via the startup applications dialogue.

In the past 24 hours my system has been hanging for 5 minutes following
log in with solid hard disk activity.  After the machine becomes
responsive again I noticed that skype was no longer running and that the
machine had swapped out 200MB of ram to disk.

I added gnome-terminal -x top to the startup and noticed that skype was
using 70% of my system ram before the system froze up.

Completely uninstalling skype and reinstalling it fixed the problem for
a couple of reboots but then the problem recurred.

Removing skype from startup fixes the problem and I can start skype
manually if I want to without issues.

If provided instructions I can probably attempt to provide further
debugging information as I am a fairly proficient user...

** Affects: skype (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Skype consumes extremely large amount of ram before crashing when
  loaded on boot

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