[AdmiralAsshat]

What's the equivalent word for "Your computer suddenly becomes slow and unresponsive, you try to open Task Manager (or run `top` in a terminal) to see what's bogging down your resources, but the resource monitor itself refuses to respond for a few seconds until the lag vanishes, at which point the utility finally renders and everything under the CPU/Memory utilization appears normal" ?

[_nalply]

That's a temporary system stall when some critical part of the system is overloaded or blocked, usually the disk.

Or an out-of-memory condition, the system recovers when the OOM killer has killed a random process. If you were lucky that process was your game hogging ressources and when it went away the system recovered.

And for impressive German words? "Systemaufstauung mit urplötzlicher Lösung" (system bottleneck with sudden resolving), "Speicherüberlastung" (memory overload) or "Prozessabmurkser" (process terminator).

Note that I invented these words (oder auf gut Deutsch, ich habe mir diese Wörter aus den Fingern gesaugt).

[eska]

If you anticipate that this will happen when you open task manager, possibly because it has happened before, you start chanting in German “watch me, I’m about to pull a trick 17!” before opening task manager, having ensured that the whole room is paying attention whether you succeed. When people ask how you knew or why it worked you just shrug smugly to hide the fact that you don’t actually now, and let everybody bask in your aura.