Creating SWAP File on AWS Lightsail Linux Machines

When I was building Vue files on a fresh AWS LightSail Machine, the SSH connection would freeze, and the building would result in a killed status. Why? It comes to me that, the memory is too small (1GB) and it gets killed for OOM. But why not swap?

Create a new swap file. By running the following commands, it would create a 8G swap file.

sudo fallocate -l 8G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

Add the line to fstab.

1 2	sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' \| sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

Ask the system to use swap less frequently.

sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10
echo 'vm.swappiness=10' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
echo 'vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf