Jetson Nano – Use More Memory!
Introduction
The NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit has 4 GB of main memory. This may not enough memory for running many of the large deep learning models, or compiling very large programs. Let’s fix that! We are going to install a swapfile.
Installation
On the JetsonHacksNano account on Github, there is a repository named installSwapFile. Clone the repository, and then switch over to the repository directory:
git clone https://github.com/JetsonHacksNano/installSwapfile
cd installSwapfile
Run :
./installSwapfile.sh
and a 6 GB swapfile will be installed at /mnt/swapfile.
Warning
You will need to have enough extra room on your device to install the swapfile.
For the 4 GB Jetson Nano, the 6 GB swapfile is what Ubuntu recommends assuming that you are using hibernation. Otherwise 2 GB should do.
Reboot the system so the changes take effect :
sudo reboot