If you were an alien sensing radio waves a city for you would be the same as a bright day for us: we are used to lots of visible light being scattered around, and the aliens would be used to radio doing the same.

Big companies use FOSS themselves, it makes sense for them to fund it. By being FOSS, they get to benefit from third party contributions for free.

We see in the visible part, yet we are not blinded by all the light.

Its not a myth at all. If a software uses too much RAM it has to be killed because otherwise the OS crashes. You can read more about it here: https://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer

Here is the source code: https://codebrowser.dev/linux/linux/mm/oom_kill.c.html

It absolutely will try, it just gets killed by the oom reaper.

Windows shows memory used for cache as free. Linux per default shows it as used.

Try free -m

Also I would disable swap, it is no longer 2004.

Because you tried two different OSes and the point where it hangs is the point where the OS sends an APM/ACPI command to reboot / power off. This is the last thing the OS does. So if that’s not happening something is wrong with the hardware, BIOS, or BIOS settings.

You could try the syslog (journalctl), but logging is probably already off at that point.

Yeah that seems like a mainboard issue.

What the fuck.

TrueNAS will remove VMs the next release. It still supports containers directly.

Edit: apparently I misremembered that and its untrue.