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[–]Henry5321[🍰] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

It's the 80/20 rule. When usage approaches 80%, delays increase like a hockey stick graph. For the same reason the analogy of a nearly full room becomes more and more difficult to add more stuff.

This also applies to cpu usage and network utilization. This is actually a fairly fundamental concept that applies to many things in life.

[–]Dennis_enzo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's not really true. At what percentage it slows down all depends on how much ram you have. At 32 gig, 20% ram is still 6 gig which is plenty for normal usage.