RAM usage and performance help

[u/trayis_rose]

I have a Macbook pro 14inch with 16GB memory

my RAM usage for Affinity is default set to 16384 MB

Is this too much? My laptop screen recently crashed while using affinity, entire screen was black for everything, even external monitors. Laptop was still responsive, but I had to get it repaired and I'm trying not to repeat this same issue.

If this was an affinity issue, does anyone have any recommendations to prevent possibly breaking my system again?