Linux 4 min read
How to stop your Ubuntu laptop from freezing after it eats your whole RAM
I’m a software developer who has been using Ubuntu on his laptop for 20+ years now. I run heavy RAM-consuming tools — Docker, IDEs, 50+ browser tabs, multiple Claude agents working in parallel, etc. The machine is fairly old, but still good enough that I don’t want to buy a new one. One of my major problems was “sometimes, under pressure, it just freezes.” The only solution was a hard reset, which killed my current flow and desktop state. I looked into it a few years ago and ended up…
📅 May 14, 2026
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