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Due to instability and memory/race condition issues with the new sykpe app, I've been using Pidgin and the skypeweb plugin: https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pi

Due to instability and memory/race condition issues with the new sykpe app, I've been using Pidgin and the skypeweb plugin: https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypeweb https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypewe... This works well for me since most of my skype traffic is chats, but I have to load the new skype app for calls.

colanderman 9y ago
Nitpick, I assume by "race condition" you mean "used lots of CPU". This is a common colloquial conflation, but race conditions [1] (which are not generally identifiable without aid of a debugger and the application's source code) and high CPU usage are unrelated concepts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition
- mediaserf 9y ago
  You're right. I didn't throw a debugger at it. It seems to randomly ramp up CPU load and stay high until I kill the process.
  - JupiterMoon 9y ago
    Do look up what a race condition is.
- dpark 9y ago
  That's not a nitpick. These are entirely different things and calling high CPU usage a "race condition" is really confusing and misleading. Do people actually do that? Where did that come from?
  - eric_h 9y ago
    > Where did that come from? Maybe because it makes your machine's fans sound like a race car? Honestly this is the first I've heard of this usage as well.
    - hackbinary 9y ago
      And also, please can we refer to computers as hard drives. Especially desktops.
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- plexicle 9y ago
  What are you going on about here? I have never once heard someone confuse "race condition" with "high CPU usage."
  - colanderman 9y ago
    Now you have: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522211
- ericd 9y ago
  I've never heard of those two things being conflated.
- Dylan16807 9y ago
  It's a subset of race conditions to be sure, but I think it's reasonable to look at a thread that gets stuck in a do-nothing loop while the app continues to run and guess it's probably the fault of buggy multithreading and bad luck on the timings.
- JupiterMoon 9y ago
  > which are not generally identifiable without aid of a debugger and the application's source code Random behavior is usually an indication that there may very likely be a race condition without needing the source code.

colanderman 9y ago

Nitpick, I assume by "race condition" you mean "used lots of CPU". This is a common colloquial conflation, but race conditions [1] (which are not generally identifiable without aid of a debugger and the application's source code) and high CPU usage are unrelated concepts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition

mediaserf 9y ago
You're right. I didn't throw a debugger at it. It seems to randomly ramp up CPU load and stay high until I kill the process.
- JupiterMoon 9y ago
  Do look up what a race condition is.
dpark 9y ago
That's not a nitpick. These are entirely different things and calling high CPU usage a "race condition" is really confusing and misleading. Do people actually do that? Where did that come from?
- eric_h 9y ago
  > Where did that come from? Maybe because it makes your machine's fans sound like a race car? Honestly this is the first I've heard of this usage as well.
  - hackbinary 9y ago
    And also, please can we refer to computers as hard drives. Especially desktops.
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plexicle 9y ago
What are you going on about here? I have never once heard someone confuse "race condition" with "high CPU usage."
- colanderman 9y ago
  Now you have: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522211
ericd 9y ago
I've never heard of those two things being conflated.
Dylan16807 9y ago
It's a subset of race conditions to be sure, but I think it's reasonable to look at a thread that gets stuck in a do-nothing loop while the app continues to run and guess it's probably the fault of buggy multithreading and bad luck on the timings.
JupiterMoon 9y ago
> which are not generally identifiable without aid of a debugger and the application's source code Random behavior is usually an indication that there may very likely be a race condition without needing the source code.