Memory Leak with premiere project

I. Issue- Everytime I open a certain project, premiere uses all system ram. About 30% of the time it goes back down to regular levels after hitting the peak for a moment. Usually freezes premiere or crashes system.

II. Version- 24.1 I updated after I had this issue with 24.0, and premiere suggested I update.

III. OS- Windows 11 (64 bit)

IV. System Info 

      CPU- Ryzen 9 5900X 12 Core

      Ram-  2 sticks of 32GB 3200mz

      Graphics- RTX 3070 Ti

      Boot Drive- 970 EVO+ 2TB

      Footage Drive- (San Disk 1 TB extreme pro portable ssd) connected by usb c

V. Video Format- XVAC 4k: MP4 4k shot on sony a6300

VI. Workflow details

      Editing off of extreme disk pro, which I have had other issues with other drives, although I have not had any issues with this particular one.

Currently organizing and reviewing interviews, organizing using a different timeline for each interview. Working on about about 500 gigs of footage, split across 17 different timelines.

I have been working on the project for four days, and have just crossed my fingers and slammed my head into the wall until I got lucky and premiere would work. (Although, it seems to freeze if I let it run by itself for too long, so I have to try again; not the issue.)

It is a single cam sequence, and I am only reviewing one interview at a time, one clip at a time, about 30-40 gigs of footage per interview.

Have tried setting cap on memory resources, but memory still hits roof in about 10 seconds.

If Premiere fixes itself before it hits cap, it will work, if it goes over cap I have to reset.

VII. Steps to Reproduce- open project in premiere. see resource monitor to watch ram hit cap. 

VIII. Expected Result - To have premiere work.

IX. Actual Result-  Sometimes computer crashes, sometimes premiere acts normal, most of the time premiere is just frozen and memory is locked at around 40 gigs.