What happens when the operating system runs out of physical memory and must use paging extensively?

[ProfRon]

You ever notice your computer getting sluggish when you've got too many tabs open? That's the OS scrambling because it ran out of RAM. It starts shoving stuff to the hard drive, like hiding toys under the bed when company comes. Paging kicks in heavy, and everything crawls. I mean, the drive spins like mad, fetching bits back and forth. You feel the lag in every click, right? It's the system borrowing space it shouldn't need so badly. Programs fight for those scraps, and crashes sneak up if it gets too wild. I've rebooted more times than I can count from that mess. You try closing apps, but nope, the damage lingers until a restart. The whole machine groans under the weight, swapping pages non-stop. It's frustrating how it turns your speedy rig into a turtle.

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