= Raspberry PI - increase swap size :docinfo2: :icons: font == Stop the swap ---- sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff ---- == Modify the size of the swap As `root`, edit the file `/etc/dphys-swapfile` and modify the variable `CONF_SWAPSIZE`: ---- CONF_SWAPSIZE=1024 ---- To modify the swap file, edit the variable `CONF_SWAPFILE`, and run `dphys-swapfile setup` which will create and initialize the file. == Start the swap ---- sudo dphys-swapfile swapon ----