overload

stress

Pressure, mental or vocal

• strainExcessive stretching force
• overwhelmDefeat by excess
• pressureForce upon contact

exhaustion · burnout · weight · fatigue · toll · breakdown · demands · responsibilities · workload · overextension

surplus

Amount exceeding requirement

• glutExcessive surplus
• surfeitExcessive quantity, often cloying
• overflowExceed capacity and spill

overabundance · saturation · deluge · flood · inundation · oversupply · too much · overwhelm · excessive · overkill

strain

Excessive stretching force

• weightMeasure of heaviness
• heavyOf great mass
• liftingRaising something heavy

cargo · capacity · hauling · tonnage · payload · structural · collapse · buckling · maximum · freight

circuit

Closed electrical pathway

• fuseProtective melting wire
• breakerWave that collapses shoreward
• shortOf limited extent

surge · wiring · voltage · current · amperage · power · trip · blow · protection · safety

buffer

Protective intermediate space

• stackItems piled vertically
• memoryMind's retention capacity
• serverOne who attends tables

system · crash · traffic · bandwidth · capacity · processing · data · requests · network · CPU

• overloadoverwhelmed, excess, surplus, maxed out, glut
• electrical safetyelectric shock, circuit breaker, fuse, GFCI, ground wire
• electrical wiringwires, wire, ground wire, circuit, grounding wire
• mental limitsmental fatigue, working memory, attention span, capacity limit, brain fog
• stressstress, chronic stress, acute stress, strain, stressor
• accumulationaccumulation, heap, pile, stack, hoard