Comment 98 for bug 159356

guess I may as well join this party...
I use Xubuntu 16.04 on a few machines, and was initially experiencing this issue for some time...

the machines:

compact:
CPU: Intel Atom D2550 1.86GHz
RAM: 1x2GB DDR3 SO-DIMM
swap: 4GB (OS HDD) + 4GB (Flash Drive)

primary: (no longer operational)
CPU: AMD Athlon II x2 2.7GHz
RAM: 2x2GB DDR3
swap: 2GB (inactive HDD) + 2GB (OS HDD) + 4GB (active HDD)

secondary:
CPU: x86 Intel Pentium4 2.8GHz 1M
RAM: 2x1GB DDR
swap: 8GB (OS HDD)

new-primary:
CPU: x64 Intel Pentium4 3.4GHz +HT
RAM: 4x2GB (only 3504MB used) DDR2
swap: 2GB (SATA-SSD) + 2GB (OS HDD)

on the initial issue, all of these machines (except my primary, or my new primary, which I just got) would freeze when the RAM filled up.
this issue seems to have been fixed some time ago by an update after my primary died, where in the case of that one, it would corrupt the HDD when using swap.
but now after a recent update, the issue is back, and my compact is currently unresponsive.
the issue has also happened on my new primary as well, but not for very long and I was able to close a few browser tabs.

regardless, this needs to be fixed again.