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this is the first time in many years of my GNU/Linux journey that I saw a BSOD. on my office machine BTW. personal machine has never crashed even once.
the crash was due to 100% RAM and swap usage.

image description:
a mobile-clicked photo of a laptop screen. the background is full black with a sad computer image in the middle. the text below it reads: "Oh no! something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again."
just below it is a small button with the text "log out"

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[โ€“] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Technically you can create a fixed size pagefile in your disk and mount it as swap workout repartitioning. But Linux doesn't use swap much regardless of method.

[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

It only uses swap under memory pressure. You can configure your swappyness if you want it to be more aggressive