The RAM issue that still presents until today (catching everyone’s attention) – Info Linux

System freezing when RAM is getting full, still happening now since 10 years ago.

My computer just freezes and I finally found out why. askubuntu link

Free memory is bad they said. link

Quoting https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

If your applications want more memory, they just take back a chunk that the disk cache borrowed. Disk cache can always be given back to applications immediately! You are not low on ram!

Is that so? bug on launchpad

To replicate this problem, don’t change your vm.swappiness or vm.min_free_kbytes, open countless of tabs in the browsers and spining up some VMs if you are on 64GB RAM. Then proceed to pressing PageDown in Mupdf that opens a pdf like this while monitoring your RAM in top

Edit: Windows 10 on the other hand, uses more RAM then Linux, but even on a full RAM, I still can move my mouse to close the applications, unlike Linux, just freeze.