create swap disk
To see which disk is available for swap disk use.
lsblk
blkid
df -Th
Format the disk.
fdisk /dev/xvda
Create a swap disk.
sudo mkswap -f /dev/xvda
sudo swapon -s /dev/xvda
# or
sudo swapon /dev/xvda
Check if swap disk is available.
lsblk
free -h
cat /proc/swaps
cat /proc/meminfo
swapon -s
top
vmstat
vmstat 1 5