{"id":14928,"date":"2024-03-15T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T10:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-i-increase-virtual-memory-in-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:18:03","slug":"how-can-i-increase-virtual-memory-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-i-increase-virtual-memory-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I increase virtual memory in Ubuntu?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To increase the virtual memory of Ubuntu, you can follow these steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open the terminal and use the following command to create a file for storing virtual memory:<\/li>\n
  2. Create a swap file with a specified size using the sudo fallocate command.<\/li>\n
  3. The parameter represents the size of the virtual memory file to be created, measured in gigabytes.<\/li>\n
  4. Establish permissions to ensure only the root user can read and write to the virtual memory file.<\/li>\n
  5. Change the permissions of the file “swapfile” to 600 using sudo.<\/li>\n
  6. Convert the file into a swap space.<\/li>\n
  7. Create a swap file using the command “sudo mkswap \/swapfile”<\/li>\n
  8. Enable swap space.<\/li>\n
  9. Enable the swap file using sudo command.<\/li>\n
  10. To automatically mount the swap space during system startup, you need to edit the \/etc\/fstab file.<\/li>\n
  11. Open the file \/etc\/fstab using the nano text editor with administrator privileges.<\/li>\n
  12. Add the following lines at the end of the document:<\/li>\n
  13. \/swapfile should have the following settings: swap, swap, defaults, 0, 0<\/li>\n
  14. Save and close the file.<\/li>\n
  15. Finally, reboot the system to apply the changes.<\/li>\n
  16. Restart the system using elevated privileges.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After completing the above steps, the virtual memory of Ubuntu will be increased. You can verify if the virtual memory has successfully increased by running the following command.<\/p>\n

    sudo swapon --show\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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