Just reporting that I'm experiencing this behavior too. As soon as a program tries to allocate much memory on the heap and the system starts swapping, everything freezes and I can't do anything but power-down.
Specs: 8GB of RAM, Ubuntu 12.04 amd64, linux 3.2.0-20-generic, encrypted swap and root fs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159356 Title: System freeze on high memory usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
