alt Hacker News> and it had issues crashing on browsers under even a couple tabs.
Surely this has way more to do with the browser (and the website!) than the OS, nowadays.
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initramfs • today at 2:50 PM
true, and I think some pre-2015 machines might not have anticipated the diverse, but unpredictable ecosystem that 800 lb browsers allow under their hood these days. :)
The memory requirements, yes. The crashing, no. The OS should not crash because memory is running out, but the solution is far from obvious or standardized. My recommendation for RAM constrained systems would be to use zswap combined with a generous amount of swap space.