Originally Posted By: hodge555
Is there a way for instance to cheat the RAM allocation using disk cache as there is plenty of space available?

IIRC, you can create, and mount, a swap partition, but the player does its best to keep the disks spun down as much as possible. The consequence of a swap partition is that disks will never spin down. I'm not sure if the swapping would lead to disruption during playback...