I've found this advise to be helpful: http://askubuntu.com/questions/41778/computer-freezing-on-almost-full-ram-possibly-disk-cache-problem even without swap file/partition reserving some memory through the vm.min_free_kbytes parameter help avoid the freeze. I've reproduce it opening a lot of chrome browser windows (CTRL+t) Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bits) Samsung Ultra np900x3a-a01es i5 4Gb RAM SSD
I've added to /etc/sysctl.conf vm.min_free_kbytes=131072 vm.swappiness=5 HTH -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159356 Title: System freeze on high memory usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
