Problem
You may want/need to create and enable a swap file on your Linux machine (or server). For example, on some AWS EC2 instances you don't get ephemeral (temporary) storage disks that can be used for swap, so you might want to create a swap file on the main EBS volume to alleviate potential memory issues.
Solution
You can create a swap file on your Linux server via a terminal. Note, you'll need sudo
access for this.
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sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.0 bs=1M count=8120 sudo mkswap /var/swap.0 sudo chmod 600 /var/swap.0 sudo swapon /var/swap.0 |
Making swap persistent
Doing the above will simply enable swap. After a server reboot swap won't be enabled. Do the following to make it persistent:
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sudo mount -a |
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