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Created Feb 18, 2021 by Oschowa@OschowaContributor

pipewire-pulse: "high" memory usage

pipewire version: 0.3.22

I've noticed that certain actions makes pipewire-pulse's memory usage go up to a somewhat high value of ~80MiB, where it stays and never goes down again. To trigger it, it's enough to play a youtube video with firefox and open/close pavucontrol a couple of times while the video is playing - memory usage doesn't go down again even if firefox and pavucontrol are closed after. Not sure if it's really an issue or leak, but real pulseaudio consumes much less memory in this scenario.

pw-dump when memory usage is high: after.txt

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