extremely high ram usage causing os instability

[hybla0]

Bug Report

Current Behavior
I compiled the executable for windows amd64 using make on ubuntu linux 22.04.2 LTS amd64
the executable upon loading eats up to 5Gb of RAM for a folder of 1.33Gb of 5 files
i had to stop the process before the system crashed
A previous attempt of uploading 2.9Gb folder 168 files resulted in a crash.

Expected behavior/code
Reasonable RAM usage

Environment

• Golang version: [e.g. Go 1.20.5]
• OS: [e.g. Windows 8]
• RAM 8Gb

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