I have no swap on my laptop, and due to an accidental bug in a program I was developing my machine ran out of memory a few months ago (twice... my first attempt

I have no swap on my laptop, and due to an accidental bug in a program I was developing my machine ran out of memory a few months ago (twice... my first attempt didn't fix it, oops!) In both cases the system locked up for well over a minute before the process got killed by OOM. It was the "classic Linux experience" regarding OOM. Back in the day I used a lot of FreeBSD on fairly cheap/constraint machines (even for the time) and somewhat frequently-ish ran out of memory, and it was a much "better" experience. I mean, OOM killing stuff is never a "good" experience, but it didn't lock for over a minute.