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Create & use swap file to temporarily increase swap size
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createSwapFile.sh
#!/bin/bash
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=10M count=100 #Creates a file of size 1000M
sudo losetup /dev/loop0 /swap
sudo mkswap /dev/loop0
sudo swapon /dev/loop0
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