Alright, so I have been working on a project of mine, that involves producing a final image that is going to be 81,600 x 131,072 (yes it's really that large, long story), that is made up of a ton of smaller images (that are around 9600x9344). Well I have been running into a problem where I export the photo as a JPEG (which thank you by the way, Photoshop doesn't like this), I have issues with creases appearing between all the images that are being combined. So I went and tried to merge the images together, to hopefully stop that. Big mistake.
This ended up bricking my computer. I have tried different combinations, as small as just 3 of them. The second I start the process, I watch my memory usage shoot through the roof, capping out at 64 GB (it consumes almost 50 GB of my RAM in the one case of just doing 3).
Now I am no expert of this stuff, but to me this feels like it shouldn't be happening. No I can't currently release the photo, sorry, it's for a "secret" project we'll call it. If it's not, I apologize but to me this seems off.