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Swap memory is a file-system based temporary storage for memory to allow a system to shuffle between different tasks that would otherwise consume all available physical memory (RAM). Cloud providers like [[AWS]]<ref>https://serverfault.com/questions/218750/why-dont-ec2-ubuntu-images-have-swap</ref> and [[Digital Ocean]]<ref>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04</ref> do not setup swap on their default images. So, it's up to you to enable swap. RedHat provides an overview of swap at https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/do-we-really-need-swap-modern-systems | Swap memory is a file-system based temporary storage for memory to allow a system to shuffle between different tasks that would otherwise consume all available physical memory (RAM). Cloud providers like [[AWS]]<ref>https://serverfault.com/questions/218750/why-dont-ec2-ubuntu-images-have-swap</ref> and [[Digital Ocean]]<ref>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04</ref> do not setup swap on their default images. So, it's up to you to enable swap. RedHat provides an overview of swap at https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/do-we-really-need-swap-modern-systems | ||
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# see if it's enabled? | # see if it's enabled? | ||
swapon -s | swapon -s | ||
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vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 | vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 | ||
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[[Category:System Administration]] | [[Category:System Administration]] | ||
[[Category:Cloud]] | [[Category:Cloud]] | ||