Jupyter Lab freezes the computer when out of RAM - how to prevent it?

Question

I have recently started using Jupyter Lab and my problem is that I work with quite large datasets (usually the dataset itself is approx. 1/4 of my computer RAM). After few trans

Answer 1

If you are using Ubuntu, check out OOM killers, you can get information from here

You can use earlyoom. It can be configured as you wish, e.g. earlyoom -s 90 -m 15 will start the earlyoom and when swap size is less than %90 and memory is less than %15, it will kill the process that causes OOM and prevent the whole system to freeze. You can also configure the priority of the processes.