swap partition not present

[mister_v]

I got a problem with my swap space.

I got a small server with 1Gb ram.
It is getting to its limit.
It want to swap out memory but because there is no partition for swap,
so it is killing some processes.

How can i fix this, without adding a partition ?

[Chris]

You can choose to add a swap-file.
Similar to what windows does.

you create a swap-file, usually in root. But do it on the partition with the most space.

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sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile

Usually you take 2 times the available ram, 1G ram x 2 = 2G swapfile.

Assign it read/write permissions for root only (not strictly needed, but more secure)

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sudo chmod 600 /swapfile

Format as swap:

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sudo mkswap /swapfile

And activate it for the current session (no reboot needed)

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sudo swapon /swapfile

You can verify with:

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swapon -s