Comment 52 for bug 159356

Still experiencing this on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit. The culprit is Chrome - I need to run two different versions at the same time for testing, and with ~20 tabs open in each, after 1-2 days of usage, Ubuntu freezes (unresponsive mouse cursor, the only thing that works is the power button).

I would say it's a little embarrassing that this bug has remained unfixed since 2007, but I'm also an open source contributor (though unfortunately not on kernels), so I won't complain.

However, would it be possible to do something like what Windows does, and warn the user to close one or more applications when the amount of free memory is dangerously low?