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How to add and increase swap on CentOS
Adding a swap file without reboot If you are having a dedicated server somewhere with not that much memory, you could decide to add a swap without rebooting your server. To do so, you need to follow the routine:
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sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=1024 bs=1MiB sudo mkswap /swapfile sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile sudo swapon /swapfile |
Increasing a swap size If something goes wrong with your system, and you see that …