When your swapfile is to tiny, you can easily exend the size of it. Here is the procedure for RedHat and CentOS.

free -m

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=8192

mkswap /swapfile

chown root:root /swapfile

chmod 0600 /swapfile

swapon /swapfile

vi /etc/fstab   

        /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

free -m

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