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Swap can be utilised by the system to free up space in RAM. For most use cases it is recommend to create a swapfile that is one and a half times the size of your RAM.
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To create a swapfile of 8 GB use:
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```
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# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=8M count=1024 status=progress
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```
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To create a different size of swapfile, change the `count=` amount to a desirable size.
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Then to actually add the swap space to your system issue these commands:
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```
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# chmod 600 /swapfile
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# mkswap /swapfile
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# swapon /swapfile
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```
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To mount the swap to the system at boot, add the swapfile to your `/etc/fstab`:
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```
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/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0
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```
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And do not forget to reconfigure the kernel after updating`/etc/fstab`:
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```
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# xbps-reconfigure -f linux<version>
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```
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