gnome errors out

So here is what is going on.

I will work on my Zorin box no issues all day. I walk away for the day come back the next day find all of my apps where closed. I check the uptime and the box didnt reboot.

I then ran the following command.

dmesg

this is the output
[164948.482291] Out of memory: Kill process 10811 (gnome-shell) score 575 or sacrifice child
[164948.482303] Killed process 10811 (gnome-shell) total-vm:4239296kB, anon-rss:2823448kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
[164948.604915] oom_reaper: reaped process 10811 (gnome-shell), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
[164959.576326] gnome-shell[12807]: segfault at e8 ip 00007f5faa0b96a2 sp 00007fff2703e998 error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.1800.9[7f5faa07c000+d4000]
[164959.763324] traps: TaskSchedulerSi[7655] trap int3 ip:557546ad913a sp:7f0f7844ef10 error:0 in chromium-browser[5575433e1000+991c000]
[170783.703796] usb 3-8: USB disconnect, device number 5


my best guess is I ran out of memory and gnome-shell errored out. But I have 4gb of memory but the swap space the install made was small only 945mb.

I am open to any suggestions on how to fix this because this is getting annoying.

Hi, I always recommend the 'something else' for installation.

1. 30 Gb for '/' formatted to Ext4 - Primary Partition
2. Extended Partition - inside of the extended partition/Logical Partition I create the 'swap area/linux swap' and double the amount of RAM inside the machine so in your case that would be a swap area of 8192 Gb - everything in front of that formatted to Ext4 and marked '/home'