I'm using an i7 + 16GB ram with a docker instance with some postgres inside, scala development using intellij and using the sbt compiler to run it on the comman

I'm using an i7 + 16GB ram with a docker instance with some postgres inside, scala development using intellij and using the sbt compiler to run it on the command line and pretty regularly it chokes and sometimes I have to restart the computer when the jvm gets crazy and starts forking itself and eventually I'm of of RAM and everything is dead slow... But I'm pretty sure those are some just bugs. Anyway, excluding those spikes, I can't work on our codebase with just 8GB, I tried, it needed to be updated. For the cpu I'm not sure if it matters or not. For disk space I never look into it and don't even know what I have, but pretty sure that doesn't matter in my case. What really matters seems to be disk accesses so the fastest disk is recommended, SSDs, etc.