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this is the first time in many years of my GNU/Linux journey that I saw a BSOD. on my office machine BTW. personal machine has never crashed even once.
the crash was due to 100% RAM and swap usage.

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a mobile-clicked photo of a laptop screen. the background is full black with a sad computer image in the middle. the text below it reads: "Oh no! something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again."
just below it is a small button with the text "log out"

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Who uses ram anyway. Go buy yourself an HDD of 12TB of swap partition

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cloud is the future. Mount Google Drive as your swap

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency 7 points 6 months ago

Oh shit guys we just downloaded more RAM

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

What if they have more than one pc? Are they supposed to buy a harddrive for each?

Get yourself a NAS and use that for swap, much easier to share between devices!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How do you get it to actually swap? I tried changing swapiness but it still hardly touches swap but maxes out ram and freezes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

To be frank, I don't actually know. I've had one or two times where my ram was maxed out because I used too many VMs but I barely remember