Create swap image for AWS EC2
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8178632 7787732 390900 71168 358200 5957592
-/+ buffers/cache: 1471940 6706692
Swap: 0 0 0
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=8196k
8392704+0 records in
8392704+0 records out
8594128896 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 131.734 s, 65.2 MB/s
$ sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
$ sudo mkswap /swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 8392700 KiB
no label, UUID=2332b81d-29c5-409a-bcf0-719b97f69d25
$ sudo swapon /swapfile
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7986 7743 243 69 6 6800
-/+ buffers/cache: 937 7049
Swap: 8195 0 8195
$ sudo vim /etc/fstab
$ cat /etc/fstab
#
LABEL=/ / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb /data ext4 defaults 0 1
/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0