Investigate adding swap space to smaller AWS t2 instances

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Investigate adding swap space to smaller AWS t2 instances #180

Open MisterMartin opened 7 years ago

MisterMartin commented 7 years ago

It seems that running out of memory is a fairly transient phenomenon. Allocating a GB of instance storage for swap may solve this and allow us to use t2.micro instances. Have to be careful though that we don't incur I/O charging.

MisterMartin commented 7 years ago

This is a good discussion about adding swap on AWS. It seems like this is something we might find useful for our larger instances, and it may even allow t2.micro to become performant. The recommendation to use the instance store sounds like a good idea.