How to upload multi-GB files to an Actix driven webserver?

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What's the best way to upload files with file sizes up to multiple GB to an Actix driven webserver?

Background:

I've got a POST route that just reads bytes from the body.

#[post("/{id}")]
async fn post_bytes(
    web::Path(id): web::Path<String>,
    bytes: actix_web::web::Bytes
) -> impl Responder { /* snip; use the bytes */ }

I raised the payload size with

        App::new()
            .data(web::PayloadConfig::new(4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)) // 4 GB

but when posting more than ~1GB, the application crashes with the following error message.

memory allocation of 1073741824 bytes failed
error: process didn't exit successfully: `target\debug\a.exe` (exit code: 0xc0000409, STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN)

This seems to be a bug in Actix. But I still have to upload the files. So, I thought maybe I'm on the wrong path and there is a better way to do it overall.

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It seems like you don't have enough memory to hold the file in memory.

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