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Activate swap file on Ubuntu (based on the tutorial for DigitalOcean - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-12-04)
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activate_swap.sh
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1024k
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
echo "/swapfile none swap sw 0 0 " | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
echo vm.swappiness = 0 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo chown root:root /swapfile
sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile
swapon -s
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