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It could be you're running out of RAM.
You could try typing
freeorfree -hin a terminal to see how much RAM you're using. If you see swap as 0, then it means you don't have it set up or enabled.I don't want to waste time explaining swap space if that's not your issue, but if it is then you can probably figure it out with some searching or come back for help once you've confirmed that RAM is the problem.
oh thanks that does make sense since it happened on my laptop but not on my desktop; i only have 12gb of ram on the laptop and the swap was only 2gb so i upped it to 8gb but we'll see if that does anything if it happens again!