Not exactly as funny meme as I would like it to be, but I just found out about that feature after having to hold the power button due to a frozen system countless times, and I had to tell someone.

  • boredsquirrel
    1·
    1 month ago

    Hm… the process itself should not take that much RAM. I dont know if normally the OS should assign the max RAM to the program.

    But this should not happen and I wonder how “just letting it freeze” works

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      It makes system unresponsive, true. But its still running the main things, the render or decompressing or whatever. So it eventually unfreezes when it completes, by giving other programs(including GUI) back the CPU and ram.

      • boredsquirrel
        1·
        1 month ago

        Ok so killing is worse than just keeping alive.

        This is a fair point.

        I dont know a good solution for this, not killing but freezing is likely the best.

        I dont know