04-05-2024, 02:54 PM
You say using mainly for Internet things like Facebook, browsing, Zoom etc. I wrote a post explaining why (got blocked) but now I'll give you the simple answer and what to try to resolve the freezing issue. Nowadays immersive Internet usage will run you out of memory for several reasons on a 4G memory system. The simplest reason is to many concurrent small memory requiring processes that starve bigger processes for memory. The oom-killer does not recognize the memory pressure of the many concurrent smaller processes and just lets the system run out of memory and freeze, instead of killing the bigger process like it used to. Now Ubuntu uses a systemd oom-killer set to auto-swap but you must have a big enough swap file to handle it. Try increasing your swap file to 4G and see if that solves the problem. The truth is not often reported about this situation but nowadays 8G of memory is actually neccessary for immersive Internet usage.
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