This Chef recipe adds swap to your VM. Particularly useful when running npm install which can use a lot of memory and be killed during the provisioning.
Tested on Vagrant + Ubuntu 14.04.
Source : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-virtual-memory-swap-file-on-a-vps
Add in your Berksfile
cookbook 'swap-simple', git: 'git://github.com/christopher5106/swap-simple.git'
and add recipe 'swap-simple' in your run list.