How to create a swap file.

A 2GB swap file.

<pre lang="bash">
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=2048k

Activate.

<pre lang="bash">
mkswap /swapfile
chmod 0600 /swapfile
systemctl daemon-reload
swapon /swapfile

To make swap permanent, add to /etc/fstab.

<pre lang="bash">
/swapfile  swap   swap    defaults   0 0

Check if swap is working.

<pre lang="bash">
cat /proc/swaps
free -h