Monday, 18 April 2016

How To add swap space on linux system


 Follow Below Steps to add swap space in Linux :


1. login to root user
su root

2. create swap file for desired size
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=524288

NOTE: bs = size in bytes and count = ( bs * desired space)
if you want to increase 1g then count will calculate in following way
1024 * 1024 = 1048576

3. setup linux swap area
# mkswap /swapfile1

4. Activiate swapfile space
# swapon /swapfile1

5. check "free-m" command on # prompt
$ free -g

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