Huge memory footprint

[nayato]

Immediately after start Skype uses around 88-100 Mb. In 10-14 hours with occasional chat sessions (~10-30 messages / hour) and about 0 calls (1 minute / hour) Skype's memory footprint climbs up to 500+ Mb.

I happen to have 8 GB of RAM but Skype is not what I've bought it for.

That said I'll be glad to assist in finding a cause of this problem (I'm a developer myself).

Skype 5.5.0.115

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1

HP 2740p

[nichanafey]

I too am having this issue, I only use Skype for text chats and the memory footprint constantly sits around 500MB +.

Using:
Skype 5.5.0.115
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1