mockra

If you’ve been playing around with Elixir on small web servers, you’ve probably noticed that you run out of memory building your application. An easy solution to this problem is adding swap space to your server. Here’s a quick setup guide for Ubuntu.

The first thing we’ll need to do is allocate space for our swap file.

  sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile

Once that’s done, we’ll need to enable our file, mark it, and turn it on with these commands

  sudo chmod 600 /swapfile

  sudo mkswap /swapfile

  sudo swapon /swapfile

Once that’s done, we’ll want to make our swap file permanent. This way the swap sticks around even when we reboot our server, or if it crashes.

  echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab