My experience is opposite. Linux (long ago) always became unresponsive when running out of memory with swap. Removing the swap solved this problem and it remai

My experience is opposite. Linux (long ago) always became unresponsive when running out of memory with swap. Removing the swap solved this problem and it remained perfectly responsive when running out of memory. I have no longer used swap for many years, so I do not know the current behavior with swap, but I have seen out of memory cases on modern systems without swap and I have never seen again a case when the computer becomes unresponsive.