Setup swapfile on FreeBSD

Sebastian Steiner

Your process consume more memory than there is physical RAM (e.g compelling on a raspberry pi)? In that case you need swap space.

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1m count=512
chmod 0600 /swapfile
echo 'md99            none            swap sw,file=/swapfile  0 0' >> /etc/fstab
reboot
swapon -aLq
swapinfo
swapctl -lh

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