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Increase Swap file

Geetu R. Vaswani Computer, Disk Drives, Hardware, Install, Linux April 15, 2010 1 Minute

Increase additional swap file
# free -tom
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1024000
$ sudo mkswap /swapfile
$ sudo swapon /swapfile
# free -tom

Make sure you take a backup of your data before doing above steps.

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