Comparison: - Horribly under-specced machine (8GB RAM) with way too many (~150) tabs open -> continuous swap stalls that last for minutes at a time and freeze

Comparison: - Horribly under-specced machine (8GB RAM) with way too many (~150) tabs open -> continuous swap stalls that last for minutes at a time and freeze the mouse cursor: 5-second load average of 12-20 - 6-year old Android phone doing tasks in the background, generally feeling more than adequately performant, and lukewarm enough that you aren't sure if it's your hand or the phone generating the warmth: load average of 12-13 - Building Linux with -j64 to see what would happen: 5-second load average of 0.97... 0.99... 49.40... 127.21... ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C 180.66... ^C^C^C^C^C^CCCCCCC^^^CCcccCCcCC 251.22... ^C^C^C^C^C^C ^C^C^C^C ^C^C^C ^C^C^C^C^C^C ^^^CCCCC^C^C^C (mouse finally moves a few pixels, terminal notices first ^C) 245.55... 220.00... 205.42... 198.94... - Resuming from hibernation with 20GB of data already in swap: 0.21... 0.15... 0.10... 251.50... 280.12... 301.69... 362.22... 389.91... 402.40... 308.56... 297.21... 260.66... 254.99... (etc; this one takes a while)