I would like to update the skipping I have experience with squash. Currently it does not skip at all during play -- it did before because if the config.ini does not get read the kernel brings the load average up to 2!

It does skip for a little while during load (which is in the background). It is not really that heavy of an operation, and is only one other thread -- so it would seem that I shouldn't be skipping. Right now I'm not worried about it and I will be looking at other issues.