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check your swap

free

turn off swap

sudo swapoff /swapfile

To create the SWAP file, you will need to use this.

sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile # same as "sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=4"

Secure swap.

sudo chown root:root /swapfile sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile

Prepare the swap file by creating a Linux swap area.

sudo mkswap /swapfile

Activate the swap file.

sudo swapon /swapfile

Confirm that the swap partition exists.

sudo swapon -s

check your swap again

free

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