[munchhausen]

This needs to be said - upgrade your RAM. If your device doesn't support a memory upgrade, get one that does.

Upgrading my laptop to 32GB RAM was one of those things where you wish you had done it a lot earlier. No more OOM-killers, no more things grinding to a halt because the box is swapping (in fact, I disabled swap altogether), no more checking memory utilisation before starting a beefy VM.

Just smooth sailing all along.

[TeMPOraL]

Yeah, until the next release of Chrome and Firefox, where GMail and Facebook together will start to happily eat 16GB of your 32. The amount of memory browsers now eat up is insane.