It's been happening for the past week or so where I've been randomly running out of RAM. I've monitored my typical RAM usage, and it's typically 4GB with Firefox + Discord + A game. Randomly my computer will freeze up and about 3 minutes later a program will crash, and I'll get a notification stating I ran out of RAM. I have 16 GB and this hasn't been an issue until now.
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I would leave a system monitor running, maybe it's processes screen, ordered by memory usage. If you don't have screen space to spare in your normal usage, there's a memory usage widget that you could put on a panel you could keep an occasional eye on that, and when usage starts to go up have a look at the monitor.Regards, John Little -
I started getting similar issues after the upgrade from 25.04 to 25.10, and when I looked, somehow (maybe from the 25.04 installation?) I had a surprisingly tiny swapfile. When I looked at the swap in System Monitor, it was always maxxed out, and the system was frequently hanging at uncomfortable times.Originally posted by SolarFreak View Post
I created a new swapfile about the size of my physical RAM (about the same as yours) and now it usually shows empty or nearly empty.
I never use suspend (I don't even know if you can, using a swapfile instead of a swap partition) but I think based on my observation I could probably get by with just a couple or four gigabytes of swap.
My system does sometime occasionally pause for a few seconds, but it doesn't start killing off processes since I increased swap.
Please report back if you see this and let me know how big your swap is. I use System Monitor
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