Swap, memory and kernel settings

40 min Ubuntu 24.04 Versions 20.04, 22.04, 24.04

Objective

Give some breathing room to a server that is short of memory thanks to swap, adjust the kernel's behaviour with sysctl, and raise the limits that make busy applications fail ("Too many open files").

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