model download with kaggle tool runs out of memory for large model

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Trying to download model weights on a mac with 16GB (downloading to inspect the files):

VARIANT='27b-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized'
mkdir -p ./models-${VARIANT}
kaggle models instances versions download -p ./models-${VARIANT} google/gemma-3/transformers/gemma-3-${VARIANT}/1
78850 Killed: 9               kaggle models instances versions download -p ./models-${VARIANT} google/gemma-3/transformers/gemma-3-${VARIANT}/1

This somehow runs out of memory. The tool only needs to download files, memory should not scale with model size.