Ask HN: Why does Google Colab crash due to insufficient RAM?

I am testing a Whisper V3 speech-to-text model from Hugging Face in my Google Colab free version and there are 12,7GB of RAM and 29GB used from 107GB storage.

It keeps crashing with "insufficient RAM" error, even after I have uploaded a small file for testing.

Why does it keep crushing instead of using more time to complete? Why doesn't it use/create more swap memory on the free 107GB storage?

I just want to test the model to see if it works at all, and then if necessary proceed to more RAM.

On my laptop I have ~16GB of RAM. Will it suffice to run the model?

If I test this model on AWS free tier, will there be enough RAM etc for initial testing?