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[teo1978 <teo8976@xxxxxxxxx>]

What is suggested there is that something in the offending program
(libreCAD) eats up all the RAM.

What I am reporting here as a bug in the OS is the fact that the WHOLE
SYSTEM hangs irrecoverably because of that.

Quoting a comment from the above link:

> Linux is very good managing the RAM memory, except when it ends without memory.
> Then the full system is frozen (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and all the distros). 
> When this happens, it's impossible to open a terminal to kill the process. 
> You will have the same experience opening hundreds of browser tabs with Flash 
> Player, for example.

If that is true it is a critical bug in Linux, which should be regarded
as a huge vulnerability rather than something we just have to live with.

Unless of course that is all incorrect and this is actually caused by a
bug in the NVidia driver (again, no idea where you get that from): in
that case of course, I guess the OS cannot be expected to be able to
recover from some extremely bad behavior of a driver. It IS expected to
be able to recover from the worst imaginable behavior of the most buggy
and malicious program, but probably not of a driver which is in fact
part of the OS itself.

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Title:
  Whole system stopped responding because of single program's fault - no
  way out, had to force power off

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