{"id":45,"date":"2018-01-21T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2021-02-07T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T13:01:49","slug":"new-vps-remember-the-swap-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/21\/new-vps-remember-the-swap-file\/","title":{"rendered":"New VPS: remember the swap file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I activated a very small VPS: 512MB RAM, 20GB SSD drive space. It ran WordPress well under Fedora 27. However, I encountered a problem with DNF refusing to update, exiting with a kernel panic on the executable.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that a virtual server image with minimal OS config can be born without a swap file. I found this link to be useful (note that for this subsystem Fedora 27 is close enough to CentOS 7, which itself is Fedora 19):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/community\/tutorials\/how-to-add-swap-on-centos-7\">https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/community\/tutorials\/how-to-add-swap-on-centos-7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I activated a very small VPS: 512MB RAM, 20GB SSD drive space. It ran WordPress well under Fedora 27. However, I encountered a problem with DNF refusing to update, exiting with a kernel panic on the executable. Turns out that a virtual server image with minimal OS config can be born without a swap &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/21\/new-vps-remember-the-swap-file\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New VPS: remember the swap file&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}