Disclaimer: The following commands document how to add a raw device as swap volume. Selecting the wrong raw device will lead to data corruption in file systems!
All commands have to be executed with root privileges
- Create a separate AWS volume with the required space. This warrants that there are no contentions in regards of maximum IOs with other volumes and the solution is price neutral
- I assume that the swap volume is /dev/xvdg, Format and add the volume to swap:
$ mkswap /dev/xvdg $ swapon /dev/xvdg
Make it persistent through reboots by adding the following line to /etc/fstab
/dev/xvdg swap swap defaults
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