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If you're running into memory usage failures, you've done something wrong along the ways in my opinion.  If you're running VMs on a personal computer or a labstation, you should keep account of how much memory you allocated, so as to not allocate more memory than your system has.

My post was relative to "Task Manager" being an overkill as per your comment:

I feel like having performance monitoring applications, such as Task Manager, be open constantly is overkill

Not to worry, I appreciate your feedback.

You only really need to check CPU utilization if something feels slow and you need to figure out what is wrong.

Not the case at all.

Your system can run fine with no significant Impact on performance with 80% CPU usage, yet that magnitude (on a consistent level) Is too high In anyone's language, hence monitoring Is Imperative.
Again, appreciate your feedback.