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My SQL database keeps going down

Posted on September 17, 2013

Hello all, i am knew to VPS, it would appear that my SQL server keeps going down. I cant login to zpanel to see if it is down.

Why would it keep going down?



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Try adding swap to your droplet: <br> <br><pre>echo “vm.swappiness=0” | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.cnf <br>sudo sysctl -p <br>sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=256k <br>sudo mkswap /swapfile <br>sudo chown root:root /swapfile <br>sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile <br>sudo swapon /swapfile <br>echo “/swapfile none swap sw 0 0” | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab</pre>

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