*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1767299 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767299
Thrashing and system lockup are possible to achieve with Firefox on a
default Ubuntu install with much more memory than this. E.g. mine has
16G.
This might not be argued to be a bug with the upstream Firefox since it
is expected behaviour, however according to #1767299 there is a
conscious choice to make Ubuntu swap defaults different from the
standard Linux recommendations. That means that the Ubuntu Firefox
package needs to be able to handle memory exhaustion gracefully.
That means that this bug is valid and _is_ annoying for beginning users
and so, if there's a choice to limit the default swap size then this
should be fixed. There might need to be a local different patch to
Firefox memory handling.
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HDD thrashing. System locks all input devices. Hard boot required to
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