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setup-2gb-swap-partition.sh
# 2gb example
# ref: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-virtual-memory-swap-file-on-a-vps
cd /var
touch swap.img
chmod 600 swap.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.img bs=2048k count=1000
mkswap /var/swap.img
swapon /var/swap.img
echo "/var/swap.img none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
sysctl -w vm.swappiness=10
free # to check it's worked
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