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How I Fixed Ubuntu Freezes and High Swap Usage on an 8GB RAM Laptop

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When opening multiple Chrome tabs alongside my local dev server, my Ubuntu machine regularly froze or stuttered. Swapping between tabs took seconds, and terminal input lagged. Here is how I traced the issue to swap thrashing and fixed it without buying extra RAM. The Problem My laptop has 8 GB of R…

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  1. 2026-09-05 07:37 · DEV Community — AI
    How I Fixed Ubuntu Freezes and High Swap Usage on an 8GB RAM Laptop

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