Just a generic question about this. I saw this command in a tutorial but I’m not sure why it’s there? swapoff -a && sed -i ‘/ swap / s/^/#/’ /etc/fstab

Swap Off - why is it necessary?

AviHaim December 29, 2021, 1:51pm 6

do I need to swap off on worker nodes as well? or just on Master node?

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