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Revision as of 09:43, 10 August 2009
To add a swap file to your vps run the following as root
To add a 500mb swap file change count=500 to another number for a smaller or bigger swap file
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap2 bs=1024k count=500 # chown root:root /var/swap2 # chmod 700 /var/swap2 # mkswap /var/swap2 # swapon /var/swap2
To have the swap file used by the kernel after a reboot, add the following to /etc/fstab (its the same as running swapon)
/var/swap2 none swap sw 0 0
