–df -h
This will show your file system and how much space you have left.
– sudo fallocate -l 8G /swapfile
Create a 8 GB of swap
–sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
Change file permissions
– sudo mkswap /swapfile
–sudo swapon /swapfile
– free -m
This will show you the swap file is on. You can also pull up the System Monitor
However this is only temporary. If you reboot, swap file is gone.
-$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
Within this file add the line “/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0”. Do not include the quotes.
Exit and save file
Now you can reboot and your Swap will be activated.
Then you can successfully train the CIFAR-10 dataset.
Ideally you would want to create a swap partition on an attached SSD or M.2 SSD and not use any of the internal memory.