A quick copy/paste to enable a 4GB swap file on Centos 6/7:
sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
echo “/swapfile swap swap sw 0 0” >> /etc/fstab
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A quick copy/paste to enable a 4GB swap file on Centos 6/7:
sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
echo “/swapfile swap swap sw 0 0” >> /etc/fstab
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