My comment was about the popup suggestion, and I do think its a good one. If you want a daemon to free memory (eg. kill processes) like http://www.cloudlinux.com/docs/memmonitor.php I would advise against since some programs like pdf/ocr related ones often use large quantities of memory to process a document causing general slowness.
2011/8/31 Darxus <[email protected]> > The machine hangs, with no indication of the reason, when there actually > is a distinct and easily addressable reason, and you're not sure that's > worth fixing? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/831498 > > Title: > No indication of running out of swap space > > Status in Ubuntu: > Opinion > > Bug description: > My machine became very unresponsive. I figured it was probably > swapping for some reason. I ran the "free" command and noticed that > my swap space was just about completely used up. Freeing memory usage > made my machine much more responsive again. > > This isn't a situation a user should need to figure out for > themselves. There should be a popup saying that you're about out of > swap space. > > > $ lsb_release -rd > Description: Ubuntu 10.10 > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/831498/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/831498 Title: No indication of running out of swap space To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/831498/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
