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Under Linux you can do a few things:

• Use compressed RAM and compressed swap (zram, zswap).
• Play around with swappinness settings.
• Put swap on the SSD (if you are using zram, make sure this one has a lower priority so it gets used after the zram swap).
• Use an early out of memory (OOM) killer e.g. EarlyOOM. The default Linux OOM killer completely freezes your system for several minutes when you run out of memory until it finally kills a process.
• Use a lightweight distro and lightweight desktop environment. Maybe even think about running a 32bit distro since they should need less RAM.
• Disable/kill anything you don’t need: cupsd (printing daemon), Bluetooth daemon/applet etc. etc.
• Think about your program choices and try to configure/use them for low memory. For example use an Adblocker in Firefox.
• Make sure your laptop does not overheat, has no faulty RAM, faulty HDD etc.

Don’t expect too much, especially if you are running applications which can eat >2GB of RAM on their own.

Under Linux you can do a few things:

• Use compressed RAM and compressed swap (zram, zswap).
• Play around with swappinness settings.
• Put swap on the SSD (if you are using zram, make sure this one has a lower priority so it gets used after the zram swap).
• Use an early out of memory (OOM) killer e.g. EarlyOOM. The default Linux OOM killer completely freezes your system for several minutes when you run out of memory until it finally kills a process.
• Use a lightweight distro and lightweight desktop environment. Maybe even think about running a 32bit distro since they should need less RAM. However I think most 32bit distros don’t make use of extended CPU instruction sets except SSE2.
• Disable/kill anything you don’t need: cupsd (printing daemon), Bluetooth daemon/applet etc. etc.
• Think about your program choices and try to configure/use them for low memory. For example use an Adblocker in Firefox.
• Make sure your laptop does not overheat, has no faulty RAM, faulty HDD etc.

Don’t expect too much, especially if you are running applications which can eat >2GB of RAM on their own.

Under Linux you can do a few things:

• Use compressed RAM and compressed swap (zram, zswap).
• Play around with swappinness settings.
• Put swap on the SSD (if you are using zram, make sure this one has a lower priority so it gets used after the zram swap).
• Use an early out of memory (OOM) killer e.g. EarlyOOM. The default Linux OOM killer completely freezes your system for several minutes when you run out of memory until it finally kills a process.
• Use a lightweight distro and lightweight desktop environment. Maybe even think about running a 32bit distro since they should need less RAM.
• Disable/kill anything you don’t need: cupsd (printing daemon), Bluetooth daemon/applet etc. etc.
• Make sure your laptop does not overheat, has no faulty RAM, faulty HDD etc.

Don’t expect too much, especially if you are running applications which can eat >2GB of RAM on their own.

Under Linux you can do a few things:

• Use compressed RAM and compressed swap (zram, zswap).
• Play around with swappinness settings.
• Put swap on the SSD (if you are using zram, make sure this one has a lower priority so it gets used after the zram swap).
• Use an early out of memory (OOM) killer e.g. EarlyOOM. The default Linux OOM killer completely freezes your system for several minutes when you run out of memory until it finally kills a process.
• Use a lightweight distro and lightweight desktop environment. Maybe even think about running a 32bit distro since they should need less RAM.
• Disable/kill anything you don’t need: cupsd (printing daemon), Bluetooth daemon/applet etc. etc.
• Think about your program choices and try to configure/use them for low memory. For example use an Adblocker in Firefox.
• Make sure your laptop does not overheat, has no faulty RAM, faulty HDD etc.

Don’t expect too much, especially if you are running applications which can eat >2GB of RAM on their own.

Under Linux you can do a few things:

• Use compressed RAM and compressed swap (zram, zswap).
• Play around with swappinness settings.
• Put swap on the SSD.
• Use an early out of memory (OOM) killer e.g. EarlyOOM. The default Linux OOM killer completely freezes your system for several minutes when you run out of memory until it finally kills a process.
• Use a lightweight distro and lightweight desktop environment. Maybe even think about running a 32bit distro since they should need less RAM.
• Disable/kill anything you don’t need: cupsd (printing daemon), Bluetooth daemon/applet etc. etc.
• Make sure your laptop does not overheat, has no faulty RAM, faulty HDD etc.

Don’t expect too much, especially if you are running applications which can eat >2GB of RAM on their own.

Under Linux you can do a few things:

• Use compressed RAM and compressed swap (zram, zswap).
• Play around with swappinness settings.
• Put swap on the SSD (if you are using zram, make sure this one has a lower priority so it gets used after the zram swap).
• Use an early out of memory (OOM) killer e.g. EarlyOOM. The default Linux OOM killer completely freezes your system for several minutes when you run out of memory until it finally kills a process.
• Use a lightweight distro and lightweight desktop environment. Maybe even think about running a 32bit distro since they should need less RAM.
• Disable/kill anything you don’t need: cupsd (printing daemon), Bluetooth daemon/applet etc. etc.
• Make sure your laptop does not overheat, has no faulty RAM, faulty HDD etc.

Don’t expect too much, especially if you are running applications which can eat >2GB of RAM on their own.