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about `out of memory`



 

Hello everyone, sorry for bothering all of you, but I need some advice.

 

These days I got a new PC to replace my laptop. And I install an Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS on the PC.

 

There is something bothering me. Almost every day, it reports an error that the memory is not enough.

 

My work (I’m a Java developer) is the same as when I worked on Windows installed on my laptop, both of the PC and laptop have 16G memory.

 

But the laptop never reports the same error.

 

And I am sure I’m not using more software now than I worked on Windows.

 

So what I’m wondering is the error is just due to the memory management of Linux Kernel, or there is something I can do to improve my experience except adding more memory?

 

When I first met this issue, I changed the `swappiness` to 10 from 60, and I add a swap file with size of 16G so that the swap space is now 18G.

 

But the error is still there.

 

And one more question, would it be helpful if I move to Debian (like with LXQT)?


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