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After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 from 15.10. I experienced crashes (system not responding, requiring a power off) every time I was running out of physical memory (using up all the RAM).

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  • I also experience crashes (system not responding or very slowly, e.g. I can move the mouse cursor and exited firefox but it took me five minutes) since I removed my swap partition from the logical volume. Is there no way to block the usage of a progam that wants to add more usage to the RAM than is possible? – bomben Mar 07 '17 at 20:08

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I have switched to a standard swap instead of cryptswap using [1]. I did not experienced the issue again. I believe that my cryptswap partition was not being used when the physical memory was 100% used and the system would just crash.

[1] https://www.logilab.org/blogentry/29155

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