How To Create And Enable A Swapfile At The Linux Command Line
What is a Swapfile? Let us start by a rhetorical question: what happens when your computer runs out of memory? In Linux, a special monitoring process – the OOM monitoring/killer process – will monitor whether a system is running out of memory, unless the OOM killer was disabled or configured differently. When that happens, this process will terminate one of the processes running on the system in order to free memory....