How to add swap on CentOS server

Check for Swap Space

Before we proceed to set up a swap file, we need to check if any swap files have been enabled by looking at the summary of swap usage.

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swapon -s
If nothing is returned, the summary is empty and no swap file exists.


Check Disk Space Usage
After we know that we do not have a swap file enabled, we can check how much space we have on the server with the df -h command.

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df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda2        20G  7.0G   12G  39% /
tmpfs           246M     0  246M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/vda1       504M   38M  441M   8% /boot

Create and Enable Swap (512k = 512 MB)

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sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=512k
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
Now you can see your swap using command

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free -m
This file will last on the server until the machine reboots. You can ensure that the swap is permanent by adding it to the /etc/fstab file.

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sudo nano /etc/fstab
Paste in the following line:

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/swapfile          swap            swap    defaults        0 0

To prevent the file from being world-readable, you should set up the correct permissions on the swap file:

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chown root:root /swapfile
chmod 0600 /swapfile

Hi, I have followed your steps and created a 2 GB SWAP FILE. But when I open the CWP dashboard, I dont see swap activated. However if I visit Disk Quota in Server settings, in the "Your disk status from the file /etc/fstab" section, it shows the swap file present but in partition scheme, it doesnt.
Even when I run df -h in terminal, I dont see the swap activated.
If I try to run swapon /swapfile it says

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swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Device or resource busyIf I execute free -m it shows Mem and Swap but the swap is 100% free

If I execute swapon -s it shows the /swapfile entry with 0 as a value in Used field and -2 in the priority field

How to know swap is working and how to show it in the dashboard also?