On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > My /etc/fstab just has > /var/swap2 none swap sw 0 0 > That's for a swap file which was made by dding 0s into it, then running > mkswap. > > You'd replace /var/swap2 with /dev/sda2 > > Sounds like you're just not loading it from your fstab. Should load > every boot. Nothing new or tricky there.
In addition, it also helps to set swappiness to a low value, like 1 or 3, on modern kernels. That has the effect of telling the kernel to prefer to keep things in memory. With swapon and low swappiness I can actually run a C++ compiler with multiple jobs and without an OOM kill. Jeff
