increase swap space using linux file

A rapid increase in the use of swap space document
1, using dd create swapfile, bs units of bytes, the unit may be manually designated as M or G, count is the count, increase examples 1M * 1024 = 1G space

[root@ecs-3642 /]# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.32039 s, 202 MB/s

2, mkswap swap file is created

[root@ecs-3642 /]# mkswap swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1048572 KiB
no label, UUID=5b0141c1-5bbc-4f44-8d31-80a9cf160b36

3, swapon to activate

[root@ecs-3642 /]# swapon swapfile
swapon: /swapfile: insecure permissions 0644, 0600 suggested.

4, see how increasing the swap space

[root@ecs-3642 /]# free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 991M 568M 68M 50M 354M 222M
Swap: 1.0G 0B 1.0G

5, boot

vim /etc/fstab 添加
/swap/swapfile swap swapdefaults 0 0

6, get rid increase swap
stop using swap

swapoff swapfile

Delete Files

rm swapfile -rf

confirm

free -h

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