[linux-audio-user] Re: fst-1.8 triggers wine-preloader processes using a lot of ram

From: Kjetil S. Matheussen <kjetil@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jun 23 2006 - 08:14:52 EEST

Paul Davis:
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 18:37 +0200, Benjamin Fabricius wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> ive made some more progress on the madi vst server.
>>
>> now ive got following problem. i am planing on being
>> able to run a large amount of plugins as i route 64 channels
>> of audio i/o.
>>
>> fst seems to start a dedicated wine-preloader process for every
>> plugin that is loaded. this causes my ram to decimate very
>> quickly and thats one thing i dont have a lot of. 512MB - Ramdisk
>> (running kind of an embedded system).
>> after starting 15 - 17 plug instances there is none
>> left obviously. is there a possibility of using only one shared wine
>> process or does anybody out there know a different work around to this
>> problem?
>
> kjetil's vstserver design works this way.
>

Not really. I think vstserver V0.0.1 or something ran everything in one
process. But I changed it quickly because if one plugin crashed, the whole
server went down as well, I'm not sure how bugfree v0.0.1 is though. It
might still work...
Received on Fri Jun 23 08:15:07 2006

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