DigitalOcean Droplets killing your npm install? You need more swap!
When your DigitalOcean Droplet runs out of memory during npm install or builds, add swap. Quick commands to grow from 500MB to 1GB and tune swappiness.
Move from 500MB to 1GB with just a few commands:
sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
sudo swapon --show
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
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.confEnjoy.