We’ve got 16GB RAM and 16GB swap and regularly run out.
It’s not games though, it’s all the browser tabs. And Steam. Hecking steamwebhelper is always the first thing to die if shit’s frozen and we mash the “please nuke something to free up RAM” key (alt-printscreen-F on Linux, you’ll probably have to turn it on, “magic sysrq” feature). And then it immediately respawns and uses up that RAM again, which makes it really hard to use that space to close other stuff in the meantime.
We’ve got 16GB RAM and 16GB swap and regularly run out.
It’s not games though, it’s all the browser tabs. And Steam. Hecking steamwebhelper is always the first thing to die if shit’s frozen and we mash the “please nuke something to free up RAM” key (alt-printscreen-F on Linux, you’ll probably have to turn it on, “magic sysrq” feature). And then it immediately respawns and uses up that RAM again, which makes it really hard to use that space to close other stuff in the meantime.
– Frost