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ptrixs
17-07-2007, 04:11 PM
Hi eveyone,

I've been trying to fix this Green Screen of Death (GSOD) issues that I started to experience on my tivo. It started to go into a reboot loop and never recovered. I read that the problem could be due to the swap file being smaller that it should be for the amount of storage that I have which is 2x 500GB drives.

Tried the following with the disks in and out of the tivo and no luck
mkswap /dev/hda8
swapon -a

I followed the following post
http://www.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/Howto/FixSwapIssues and tried all options and still no luck.

I then went to my last option which is to rebuild the tivo using the latest image. During the setup, I specified 510MB for the swap file size. However, after it rebooted, I telnet into the box and ran the pdisk /dev/hda command and under partition 7: Swap Root 2, it still shows 128MB. Does this mean that the swap file is back to 128MB?

Can someone advise how to increase this to 500MB?

petestrash
18-07-2007, 07:35 PM
when you re-imaged did you select update installer?

The version on the ISO has some issues with swap size, which has since been corrected in the update.

Peter.

ciper
16-08-2007, 01:19 AM
Please view this thread for help on increasing the swap and its performance. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=360675 About post 10 is when it gets interesting.
I am currently running an S1 tivo with 1.4gb of swap. 700 of it on the A drive with priority 5 and 700mb on the B drive at priority 3.