David Kimura
PRO
said over 3 years ago
on
Deploying to Amazon Linux 2
:
☒ That is a pretty annoying error. You can enable Swap memory on the VM which will prevent things from crashing. This will create a 4GB Swapfile and enable it.
Side note: People say that enabling Swap in production is horrible and bad practices. My take is that it's bad practice to have your app "randomly" crash and take down the site. Have proper monitoring in place for when you're approaching OOM and hitting swap and address the issues, but don't let the server crash.
# .ebextensions/swap.config
commands:
000_swap:
ignoreErrors: true
test: test ! -f /swapfile
command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=4096 && mkswap /swapfile && swapon /swapfileSide note: People say that enabling Swap in production is horrible and bad practices. My take is that it's bad practice to have your app "randomly" crash and take down the site. Have proper monitoring in place for when you're approaching OOM and hitting swap and address the issues, but don't let the server crash.