Quick way to add SWAP

While it would be ideal if every server had plenty of RAM in the real world that does not happen. If for some reason you have a server with too little SWAP or you are hitting the max of the swap here is a quick hack which will create a 2Gb container file then use it for additional swap space on the server. To check the swap space used you can use “free -m”.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap-file bs=1024 count=2048000
mkswap /usr/swap-file
swapon /usr/swap-file
swapon -s
Now add the following to the /etc/fstab and you are done.

/usr/swap-file swap swap defaults 0 0

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