I think this sounds like some form of swap issue more than a ram problem -- I have 1G ram, but only a 211M swap (it's more of a token, really), and my computer never uses the swap at all, even when playing regnum, with one exception: a week or two back the regnum client stopped responding and did a DoS attack on my computer, I managed to jump out into console after much persistence and waiting, and noticed that the swapping had gone haywire, once I killed the regnum process the DoS stopped and my system was freed up.
But if we went by your logic, then I should be noticing this behaviour far more often since I have way less swap than you, however clearly I don't so the conclusion must be that there's some portion of regnum in your ram goes crazy if it gets put in the swap, and systems with more swap space would swap more, and thus be at a higher risk of it occurring. But this means that it's not general ram usage by regnum, but rather some specific routine that befucks things.
Anyway, it's all speculation obviously.
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