[curt15]

>I can't understand how can it be possible that, on Windows, whenever I run out of RAM the OS kills whatever process is consuming too much and the computer keeps running flawlessly.

I've long wondered this too. How does Windows handle memory pressure differently?

[notriddle]

One of the other suggestions was to create a swap file. Windows has a page file by default, right?

[kevincox]

IIRC windows has a managed set of page files that grows as necessary.