How to Increase Swap Space

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Tip 1 - Increase your available swap space with a swap file

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Andre Carrara | permalink

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For further reading: https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/442430-increase-your-available-swap-space-with-a-swap-file ^[1]

Tip 2 - How to increase swap space on a live server

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Gaetano | permalink

On Ubuntu 14.04, the swap file has to be increased as the memory and swap usage are reaching 100% usage. On a live production server, can the swap be increased with minimal disruption to the servi...

For further reading: http://serverfault.com/questions/613856/how-to-increase-swap-space-on-a-live-server ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to increase swap space?

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Anne Chartier | permalink

I have, by default, 250MB of swap space in Ubuntu, and I want to expand it to a larger size. I need 800MB, which I think will be enough to open several applications without having to hit the current

For further reading: http://askubuntu.com/questions/178712/how-to-increase-swap-space ^[3]