"Anything above 8GB exceeds what it is designed to handle and can cause major performance problems, such as the database becoming unresponsive for 1-2 minutes."

"Anything above 8GB exceeds what it is designed to handle and can cause major performance problems, such as the database becoming unresponsive for 1-2 minutes." Can you please expand on that? What version did you test, on what hardware, and what workload?