What is suggested there is that something in the offending program (libreCAD) eats up all the RAM.
What I am reporting here as a bug in the OS is the fact that the WHOLE SYSTEM hangs irrecoverably because of that. Quoting a comment from the above link: > Linux is very good managing the RAM memory, except when it ends without > memory. > Then the full system is frozen (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and all the distros). > When this happens, it's impossible to open a terminal to kill the process. > You will have the same experience opening hundreds of browser tabs with Flash > Player, for example. If that is true it is a critical bug in Linux, which should be regarded as a huge vulnerability rather than something we just have to live with. Unless of course that is all incorrect and this is actually caused by a bug in the NVidia driver (again, no idea where you get that from): in that case of course, I guess the OS cannot be expected to be able to recover from some extremely bad behavior of a driver. It IS expected to be able to recover from the worst imaginable behavior of the most buggy and malicious program, but probably not of a driver which is in fact part of the OS itself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853707 Title: Whole system stopped responding because of single program's fault - no way out, had to force power off To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/1853707/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : compiz@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp