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How to increase SWAP file size in Ubuntu Linux 14.04 ?

Posted on July 9, 2015

I have a droplet with 4 GB Memory with 8 GB SWAP file & I am getting about 23000 views on my blog , so my loading time of site is taking many seconds.

Please can someone tell me how to increase SWAP file size ?

Also please tell me how to speed up my wordpress blog (I cache with W3 Super Cache) …

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Ryan Quinn

July 9, 2015

If you created your swap file following our tutorial you can simply do the following to disable you current swap file:

swapoff /swapfile

Then create a new one using the same procedure. There should not be any need to update your fstab.

If you are seeing a lot of requests and apache is taking a while to respond you may want to check if you have KeepAlive turned on. If you do, this will keep a connection open for a current client. If this is on and your MaxClients setting is too low a new request will wait for one of the kept-alive connections to time out before responding. If this happens you will see slow first response times but actual file transfers and php processing still running normally.

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