> This doesn’t seem like a common problem but whole system “out of memory” conditions are not that uncommon. When the system is in this state, it starts rapidly

> This doesn’t seem like a common problem but whole system “out of memory” conditions are not that uncommon. When the system is in this state, it starts rapidly paging memory onto the hard disk. UI applications will be affected and this will cause your system to hang without warning and with no way to intervene since keypresses cannot be processed. From a user standpoint, this is worse than a kernel panic. This type of failure has happened to me multiple times on Linux so I know it’s a problem there. Perhaps Windows and macOS engineers have already considered this issue but I doubt it. In my experience this is only a problem on Linux. Windows and mac will simply inform you that the system is running out of memory and then you can kill things to set it right. No hung system.