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autodidacticon/swapfile.sh

Created September 20, 2014 02:35
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  1. autodidacticon created this gist Sep 20, 2014.
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    sudo install -o root -g root -m 0600 /dev/null /swapfile
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=2048k
    mkswap /swapfile
    swapon /swapfile
    echo "/swapfile swap swap auto 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
    sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=10
    echo vm.swappiness = 10 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf