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Create a swap file on CentOS 6.5
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Check for existing swap files

swapon -s

Create swap file with 1024k size

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024

sudo mkswap /swapfile

chown root:root /swapfile

chmod 0600 /swapfile

sudo swapon /swapfile

In case you want to make it permanent

sudo nano /etc/fstab

And add:

/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

Set swappiness

sysctl vm.swappiness=10

make it permanent

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

change

vm.swappiness=10

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