I have 1GB RAM in my notebook (HP Compaq 6735s), but the video card is using 256MB, so I'm left with 768MB RAM.
However, whenever my system starts using more than 85% of memory, it becomes unusable. It literally stops. With a swapfile it slowly wakes up, once it has freed enough RAM, but without it, my system freezes.
Is this caused by system misconfiguration or is it normal behaviour?
Thanks.
AMD ATI Radeon (Mobility) HD 3200
, which, according to this site, uses shared memory I'm on LXLE 64 bit (Lubuntu distro with themes on twirks, but the same behaviour occured on Lubuntu, Ubuntu and Debian. On a 32 bit distro, it freezed when 500MB was used.free -m
*wink* I calculated the 85% myself, from what memory was in use at that moment.