diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-formats/tests/slb_leading_segment_disc.rs b/crates/sylpheed-formats/tests/slb_leading_segment_disc.rs
index 213a38ef..27d0dd4f 100644
--- a/crates/sylpheed-formats/tests/slb_leading_segment_disc.rs
+++ b/crates/sylpheed-formats/tests/slb_leading_segment_disc.rs
@@ -6,14 +6,34 @@
 //! silence. One rule, two outcomes.
 
 use std::path::Path;
+use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
 use sylpheed_formats::{slb, PakArchive};
 
 mod common;
 use common::skip_without_disc;
 
+/// One archive for the whole binary.
+///
+/// `PakArchive` holds the entire concatenated payload in memory, and
+/// `sound.pak` is **1.01 GB** (`sound.p00`-`.p04`). Opening it per call — which
+/// the helpers below did, inside loops — put one copy per test thread in flight,
+/// so at the default thread count the suite needed ~6 GB and was SIGKILLed by
+/// the CI container's 7 GB cap (`--memory-swap` equals `--memory`, so there is
+/// no swap to absorb it). A killed suite prints no `test result:` line at all,
+/// so it vanishes from the tally rather than failing visibly.
+///
+/// The archive is immutable once open and every accessor takes `&self`, so one
+/// shared instance is equivalent to N private ones — at 1/N the memory.
+fn sound(root: &Path) -> &'static PakArchive {
+    static SOUND: OnceLock<PakArchive> = OnceLock::new();
+    // Every caller passes the same `disc_root()`, so first-writer-wins is the
+    // same archive whichever test initialises it.
+    SOUND.get_or_init(|| PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/sound.pak")).expect("sound.pak"))
+}
+
 fn bank(root: &Path, n: u32) -> Vec<u8> {
-    let snd = PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/sound.pak")).expect("sound.pak");
+    let snd = sound(root);
     let path = format!("eng\\etc\\VOICE_D_{n}.slb");
     let entry = snd.find_by_name(&path).expect("bank present");
     snd.read(entry).expect("read")
@@ -71,7 +91,7 @@ fn all_zero_leading_region_is_skipped() {
 }
 
 fn bank_named(root: &Path, path: &str) -> Vec<u8> {
-    let snd = PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/sound.pak")).expect("sound.pak");
+    let snd = sound(root);
     let entry = snd
         .find_by_name(path)
         .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{path} present"));
@@ -154,7 +174,7 @@ fn derived_offset_recovers_voice_banks_without_regressing_etc() {
 #[test]
 fn scan_data_offset_agrees_with_the_riff_derived_answer() {
     skip_without_disc!(root);
-    let snd = PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/sound.pak")).expect("sound.pak");
+    let snd = sound(&root);
     let mut checked = 0usize;
     let mut agreed = 0usize;
     for lang in ["eng", "jpn"] {
@@ -198,7 +218,7 @@ fn scan_data_offset_agrees_with_the_riff_derived_answer() {
 #[test]
 fn scan_only_returns_known_offsets() {
     skip_without_disc!(root);
-    let snd = PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/sound.pak")).expect("sound.pak");
+    let snd = sound(&root);
     let mut seen = 0usize;
     for n in 1u32..200 {
         for path in [
@@ -232,7 +252,7 @@ fn scan_only_returns_known_offsets() {
 #[test]
 fn a_waves_declared_size_is_confirmed_by_the_next_seek() {
     skip_without_disc!(root);
-    let snd = PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/sound.pak")).expect("sound.pak");
+    let snd = sound(&root);
     let mut checked = 0usize;
     for n in 1u32..400 {
         for path in [
@@ -289,7 +309,7 @@ fn a_waves_declared_size_is_confirmed_by_the_next_seek() {
 #[test]
 fn a_bank_that_states_its_own_header_has_no_leading_segment() {
     skip_without_disc!(root);
-    let snd = PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/sound.pak")).expect("sound.pak");
+    let snd = sound(&root);
     let mut with_header = 0usize;
     let mut mid_bank = 0usize;
     // Peek at the 56-byte header through the archive's flat data rather than
@@ -327,7 +347,7 @@ fn a_bank_that_states_its_own_header_has_no_leading_segment() {
 #[test]
 fn the_menu_music_bank_is_exactly_two_sub_waves() {
     skip_without_disc!(root);
-    let snd = PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/sound.pak")).expect("sound.pak");
+    let snd = sound(&root);
     for (name, sizes) in [
         ("BGM_103.slb", [3_876_864usize, 3_930_112]),
         ("BGM_001.slb", [4_466_688, 4_673_536]),