My Linode has no swap?
I configured my server and set up 2048MB for swap space, but when I run free -mt it shows zero swap.
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1978 330 1308 42 340 1432
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 1978 330 1308
Here is my Configuration Profile:
/dev/sda Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Disk
/dev/sdb Home
/dev/sdc 2048MB Swap Image
Is this normal? How do I configure my server to use swap?
2 Replies
By default, when you deploy a Linode, it is configured to use /dev/sdb as the swap disk. It does this by creating a line in /etc/fstab to mount the swap disk on boot:
/dev/sdb none swap sw 0 0
Your configuration profile shows that your swap is on /dev/sdc, but your fstab likely still trying to mount it via /dev/sdb
I'd suggest taking a look at your /etc/fstab and Configuration Profile at the same time and making them match: it doesn't matter where the swap volume ends up, but the configuration profile and fstab should agree.
Once its setup correctly, reboot, and run swapon --show
to confirm that everything is working properly.