Increase Swap Size

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I am going to open the chromium browser in kiosk mode on Raspberry Pi Zero W by following this project - https://github.com/jayatvars/balena-chromium-kiosk

The problem is that the chromium browser requires much more memory than 512MB + 100MB(default swap size) on Pi Zero.
Is there anyway that I can increase the swap size so that I can run the chromium browser without any crashing?

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Hey Wester, unfortunately this is not advised on a device that is using SD card storage as it’ll corrupt it much sooner. If you do however want to explore this more I found this forum post (SWAP files inside container) where another user is trying to do the same thing. Specifically check out the 12th comment (SWAP files inside container).

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Ok, got it.
Thanks!