Daniel Silva

Confirmed the problem was probably the drive (very old ssd). Just tested the scene on a machine running ubuntu (now 24 problem was happening in 22) w/ 32gb and big swap on a new m.2 with no problem.

Found this post with two possible explanations:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1487392/why-does-memory-heavy-processes-lead-to-system-crashes-when-swap-is-available [askubuntu.com]

The badblocks theory lines up because I wasn't getting the crash on my windows machine that had the same 32gb ram and big swap config. The windows machine had the swap on a newer m.2 drive.

Did two frames and now back to crashing at 200...