If by ‘suspend’ you mean that the process will just halt, then: Which processes? All of them? Good luck displaying a message then. The last one that made a memory request? That might not be the true offender. The highest-consuming process? Same logic applies.

If by ‘suspend’ you mean moving the memory to disk, then a single misbehaving process, may end up eating all of memory and all remaining disk space.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Good luck with this approach on a server.

Indeed, obviously I'm talking about desktops here.

If by ‘suspend’ you mean that the process will just halt, then: Which processes? All of them? Good luck displaying a message then.

You could use some kind of heuristic to suspend ones using the most memory/CPU. Or just suspend them all. Obviously you would exclude the processes needed to display the message.

If by ‘suspend’ you mean moving the memory to disk

No I meant just pausing their execution. I'm pretty sure ctrl-alt-del does something like this on Windows.