Originally Posted By: mlord
That's generally tunable to taste using /proc/sys/* interfaces, and I suppose we also happen to have the full source code if we care to get fancier.

Sure, I was just suggesting that most people's taste would be "not at all" during normal playback, which is more easily achieved with swapoff() than /proc/sys/*.

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Does the player normally try to enable swap during a sync?
Note that swapon -a uses /etc/fstab for the "-a" part, and if swap partitions are not listed there, it has no effect.

IIRC it's not enabled for the whole sync, but it's certainly enabled if fsck needs to be invoked. The player uses swapon(2) not swapon(8), so /etc/fstab isn't consulted, but of course it wouldn't be hard in Hijack to make each call to swapon(2)/swapoff(2) actually do more than one partition if that's what your new disk setup needed. I'm also pretty sure it uses "/swapfile", or some such name, as the argument to swapon(2), rather than the actual partition device, so you could point that symlink somewhere else if it helped.

Peter