Please view this thread for help on increasing the swap and its performance. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.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.