raspberry-pi-swap-memory¶
Raspberry Pi increase the swap memory size
- First edit the swap configuration file
Change the size for your preference, Default is 100
, (100MB)
Change for example for 2048
(2GB)
sudo vim /etc/dphys-swapfile
- Second, restart the service
sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile restart
- Confirm
Default swap file location is ls -lh /var/swap
-rw------- 1 root root 2.0G Feb 29 20:20 /var/swap
- HTOP - you can also confirm with
htop
to see memory, cpu and swap usage.
If you do not have htop
installed, you can install it with apt-get install htop