>I got W three times now, for a much shorter amount of time,
>and still it is much much less frequent than when I have hijack
>installed. Maybe just less memory available for caching purposes
>when Hijack is in the kernel?

Yes, I suppose that must be the issue. Now that frame-pointers are back in the Hijack kernels, they are much larger than they once were. I've never figured out the size, but maybe 100-200KB added size for a stock Hijack. This could be "just enough" to put it over the next-track readahead threshold for average sized tunes.

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