swapfile

swapfile

Ansible role to manage a swap file in Debian-like systems.

Requirements

• fallocate (will be installed)

Variables

• swapfile_size: [default: 1G, false to do nothing]: The size of the swap file to create in the format that fallocate expects: The length and offset arguments may be followed by binary (2^N) suffixes KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB and EiB (the "iB" is optional, e.g. "K" has the same meaning as "KiB") or decimal (10^N) suffixes KB, MB, GB, PB and EB.
• swapfile_swappiness: [optional]: The swappiness percentage (vm.swappiness) -- the lower it is, the less your system swaps memory pages
• swapfile_vfs_cache_pressure: [optional]: This percentage value controls the tendency of the kernel to reclaim the memory which is used for caching of directory and inode objects

Dependencies

None

Example

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - oefenweb.swapfile

or:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: oefenweb.swapfile
      swapfile_size: 1GB
      swapfile_swappiness: 10

License

MIT

Author Information

Mischa ter Smitten (based on work of kamaln7)

Feedback, bug-reports, requests, ...

Are welcome!