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  15 <h1>Raspberry PI increase swap size</h1>
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  23 <p>Stop the swap</p>
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  29 <pre>dphys-swapfile swapoff</pre>
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  35 <p>Modify the size of the swap</p>
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  40 <p>As <code>root</code>, edit the file <code>/etc/dphys-swapfile</code> and modify
  41 the variable <code>dphys-swapfile</code>:</p>
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  45 <pre>CONF_SWAPSIZE=1024</pre>
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  51 <p>Start the swap</p>
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  57 <pre>dphys-swapfile swapon</pre>
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  65 Last updated 2016-12-21 23:53:00 UTC
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