[masklinn]

Every distribution has its variation of a task manager, and there’s always (h)top and kill as baseline standards.

Having everything lock up I don’t think I’ve ever seen, only way I could see that happen is a runaway process eats all the memory of the machine, and somehow dodges the OOM killer. Especially if the machine is configured with no swap (don’t do that).

And I’m saying that as someone who doesn’t really like linux.

> forcing me to spend hours on google to fix some crap by copypasting random nonsense into terminal

Have you considered that “copy pasting random nonsense into terminal” could be the source of your issues?

[mplanchard]

Ubuntu ships with woefully inadequate swap these days. We have to advise our employees to customize the installation process, or they get hangs while building C or Rust packages that sound like what GP is describing

[masklinn]

That is frustrating to read. Swap you're not using doesn't hurt anyone, but having no swap can really screw you up.