Snakeoil ISO File Version 0.1.4 (Cryo Treatment)

[Jhya]

But as it is, Snakeoil is really barebones, if you look at the memory footprint, e.g. mine:

Code:

MemTotal: 4031068 kB
MemFree: 3906520 kB
Cached: 63764 kB

you'd see it hardly uses anything at all, and the HDD activity light never turns on.. so after about 5 minutes of running, everything you need from the OS is already cached, and it's not really reading off any OS files any more.

Having no SSD is still good though, as it's one less electronics device to power.
 

By the way, I'm using the MPD (dsd-rt) player. Keep up the great work!

Thanks. And great choice as a player. Are you doing native DSD by any chance?

PS: Good to actually see somebody from USA using Snakeoil. I have no idea that word is seen so negatively in the US, but it's too late for me to change the name now  .

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I would love to try the snake oil tab to test the source clocks, but I can't find it on the main page.

I just checked my memory usage, it actually cached to almost full using OS in RAM, but no apparant degradation in sound quality or performance:
 MemoryMemTotal: 8143620 kB
MemFree: 65492 kB
Cached: 7728320 kB
Is that normal?

I'm wondering if I can turn off the GUI after I load the LiveCD to RAM, maybe there's some performance to be gained from that too... Also, how would I save my settings to the LiveCD and install some players, so that I wouldn't need to input my settings again after reboot?
A better question is, would I be able to load into RAM my SSD installation of the OS? That will be awesome, since I will not need a USB drive anymore! And I can make the SSD the media drive with the OS offloaded separately into RAM.

I'm not using DSD, just normal FLAC and APE music sources. I have tried MPD v17, but that one doesn't support APE files. v19 and Git Version works with APE and sound good too. But I like the new dsd-rt player the best.