How to Set Swap Partition on 2GB of memory

Answered 3 years ago (Feb 15, 2022) by Eldernode Staff

For server with 2 GB of memory, it is recommended to set 2 GB (2048MB) swap partition to improve system performance.

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=2048 bs=1M

sudo chmod 600 /swapfile

sudo mkswap /swapfile

sudo swapon /swapfile

echo '/swapfile   none    swap    sw    0   0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

free -m