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Bug#1039449: fluidsynth: High memory usage even if not used



Hi Witold,

Am 2023-06-26 02:32, schrieb Witold Baryluk:
I do not know why it autostarts, my guess is that pipewire or something
else starts it, even if it is not needed. (it runs as a normal user, not some system user, and there are no init.d script or systemd units for it
that I can find)

well, it does come with a systemd unit:

/usr/lib/systemd/user/fluidsynth.service

If this service is enabled, fluidsynth acts as a MIDI daemon, i.e. as a virtual MIDI device.

You may either want to disable this service, or switch to a different default soundfont with a smaller memory footprint, e.g. the one in the `timgm6mb-soundfont` package, either by uninstalling all soundfont packages but this one or by using Debian's `update-alternatives` mechanism.

Hope that helps!

 - Fabian


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