Comment on Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day agoIt’s just that the system freezes for me when I used to run out of memory when I had only 32 GB of memory. Then I couldn’t do anything and had to hard reset the computer with its reset button. Then it would be nice to have a little bit of swap to kill some stuff before literally everything just stops working.
B0rax@feddit.org 1 day ago
Was that on Linux?
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, on multiple computers. Linux I feel will just happily hand out memory on loan like a bank rather than from what’s actually available. Then when it runs out, the next request for more memory will just freeze the system. ☠️