zaherg/swap.md

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create a swap on VPS

Raw

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=512k && sudo mkswap /swapfile && sudo swapon /swapfile

edit fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

add to fstab

/swapfile       none    swap    sw      0       0

finish up

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