Swap memory on low resource servers

Swap memory on low resource servers

Here are a few commands I have in my notes for adding swap memory on low resource Linux servers. I've used these on low end VPS's like the cheaper offerings by Amazon Lightsail.

The commands

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=6114
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

sudo echo '/swapfile   swap    swap    defaults        0   0' | sudo tee --append /etc/fstab

sudo swapon -a

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