Create a swap file method

 

 

1  dd  IF = / dev / ZERO = of = / swap bs 1024 COUNT = 4096000             # to create a large enough file
 2  # COUNT is equal to 1024 x file size you want, 4096000 is 4G
 3 mkswap / swap this # file becomes swap file
 4 swapon / swap enable this swap file #
 5 / swap swap swap Defaults 0  0       # to automatically load at each boot time swap file, you need to / etc / increase in line fstab file
 6  CAT / proc / swaps # View swap
 7 swapoff - A # close the swap
 8 swapon -a # open swap