Added swap space on the fly
There have been a number of times that my Ubuntu machine has just ground to a halt. Turns out that my configured swap partition was way under-sized. The instructions at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file-howto/ are an easy step by step guide to defining a file instead of resizing partitions and creating a new partition to serve as swap space.
Nice tip. By the way, your link needs fixing – it has an extra http// in it. Easy to do, since WordPress prefixes http:// in the link editor….