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Odroid: Swap on USB-stick

Posted on March 9, 2016 Leave a Comment

Swap is used when the kernel runs out of memory and need to swap less used information to the disc to make space for information currently in use. In a good setup the swap will never be used but if it’s needed and not existing it will make processes crash. I have just started out […]

Amazon AWS EC2 Linux Swapfile

Posted on September 4, 2014 5 Comments

The Amazon EC2 Linux instances comes without swap. Sooner or later this will be a problem with service hangups or crashes as a result because you run out of memory. I found a lot of instructions on the web about how to add a swap file but no one takes the storage into concern and you may […]