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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]] do not setup swap on their default images.  So, it's up to you to enable swap.  https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04
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. 


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