Unable to load nodes due to too much memory consumption.

[mwantia]

I am currently trying to create a mega client within Docker, but am unable to complete the execution of this method even after waiting for an hour.

public void CacheNodes()
{
    Console.WriteLine("Caching nodes...");
    lock (_lock)
    {
        IsRunning = true;
        if (_client.IsLoggedIn)
        {
            _nodes = _client.GetNodes();
            if ((Root = _nodes.Single(node => node.Type == NodeType.Root)) == null)
            {
                IsCompleted = false;
            }
            else
            {
                IsCompleted = true;
            }
        }
        IsRunning = false;
    }
    Console.WriteLine("Caching nodes completed.");
}

It works when I test everything on my PC, but only because Visual Studio is showing a memory usage of 5,2 GB under Diagnostic Tools.
This is obviously not a amount that I can just provide to an docker container which only job is to download files.

Are there any ways to avoid this kind of memory consumption?
Is there a reason why the amount is so high, even tho it only loads the metadata for each node?

[gpailler]

How many files/folders do you have on the Mega account?

[mwantia]

I guess the dashboard should display the correct amount of data (files/folder) for the account I am using:

I wouldn't say that this is an extreme amount of data, so I don't know if this is simply a limitation from this project or if there's somehow a way to dump the list of nodes outside and only load part of it when required.

Also, this is the amount of node items I get after executing Client.GetNodes():

[gpailler]

Well, it's definitely a lot of files/folders and I never tried this library with that huge number of nodes. What is quite strange is that the number of nodes doesn't match the number of files+folders at all.
At the time of the implementation, it was only possible to dump all the nodes from the Mega API. Maybe there is another endpoint today to retrieve only a subset of the nodes, but I didn't investigate.
Would it be possible to check why you have ~1.5m nodes retrieved for only ~230k files?

[mwantia]

I will see, if I can export all nodes into a big csv-file.
Maybe I can identify if there are broken nodes or something.
Could explain why there are so many and why it takes minutes to load them.