Hi guys,

Using a swapfile to increase the swap space on your system

1. Using dd lets make a zero’d file for the swap

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1048576 count=1000

2. Make file as a swapfile

mkswp /swapfile

3. Activate swapfile

swapon /swapfile

4. Verify that our swapfile has been activated

swapon -s

If you want to have this a permanent solution, then adding the entry to fstab would probally be a better idea,

open up /etc/fstab in your favourite editor and add the following line.

/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0


Thanks,
Riju's.