Comment 18 for bug 159356
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| Excalibur (dev-arthurk) wrote Re: System freeze on high memory usage | #18 |
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Yes, this is a really obnoxious bug. It's been around longer than Ubuntu has (I've been using Linux since 1999). It seems to me to be a completely unacceptable behavior to have the entire operating system grind to a halt and freeze due to too much RAM being in use.
I have 8GB of RAM and swap TURNED OFF, yet this still happens where I'll have a lot of work tasks and windows open, then all of a sudden the system freezes with the HDD stuck in a fury of swapping, with no other recourse than ALT-SysRQ-SUB emergency shutdown (or hitting the power button).
An issue of this severity being left unsolved for years is one of the things that irks me as a fanatical Linux evangelist. My mother runs Linux and the fear of her having issues like this keeps me up at night...