Adding a Linux Swap File for Virtual Memory
Posted on | February 27, 2012 | No Comments
Give your Linux system more virtual memory
By Robin Rowe
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 2012/2/27 – Sometimes you need a little more memory for programs that use a lot of memory like Firefox. It used to be you had to dedicate a separate swap partition, but now Linux virtual memory can use a file instead of a partition, like Windows. Here’s how to set that up….
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/boot/swapfile bs=1024 count=524288
# mkswap /boot/swapfile
# chown root:root /boot/swapfile
# chmod 0600 /boot/swapfile
# swapon /boot/swapfile
vi /etc/fstab
/boot/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
$ free
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Category: Linux
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