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Enable swap allocation
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# swap space allocation | |
sudo fallocate -l 1G /var/swap.1 | |
# or use following command that agnostic about distro | |
#sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024 | |
sudo chmod 600 /var/swap.1 | |
sudo /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1 | |
sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1 | |
# check if swap is up in the right way | |
sudo swapon --show | |
# (optionally) works to mount swap automatically with fstab on restart machine | |
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak | |
echo '/var/swap.1 none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab | |
sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10 | |
echo 'vm.swappiness=10' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf | |
sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 | |
echo 'vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf |
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