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Technical Tip: Steps to disable swap on the instance

Description

This article describes the steps that can be used to disable swap on the FortiSOAR Linux Machine.

Scope

FortiSOAR.

Solution

FortiSOAR is being hosted on Linux OS. The user can refer to the steps below to disable swap.

# swapoff -a
# cp -a /etc/fstab /home/csadmin/fstab.bkp
# vi /etc/fstab

Locate the line containing the swap entry, add a '#' at the beginning to comment it out, and then save the file using: wq!.

# mount -a
# systemctl daemon-reload

Confirm the swap is disabled using the command below:

# free -gh <-- Output would show swap as 0.

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