how to add swap on EC2

To add this extra space to your instance you type

sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
sudo /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
sudo chmod 600 /var/swap.1
sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1

add this line to /etc/fstab:

swap        /var/swap.1 swap    defaults        0   0

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