Memory bottleneck

Imagine playing a game of catch with a friend. You both have a lot of balls to throw and catch. However, you only have one hand to catch with while your friend has two. This means that you will have a harder time catching all the balls and might have to wait longer to catch the next one, slowing the game down.

This is kind of like a memory bottleneck - your computer has a lot of tasks to do, but it can only handle a certain amount of information at once. If the tasks require a lot of memory, your computer might slow down or even freeze while it tries to handle everything.

To prevent this bottleneck, some computers have more memory or faster processors to handle more tasks at once. However, if the bottleneck is caused by a specific program or process taking up too much memory, you might need to close that program or find ways to optimize it so it uses less memory.