diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0d3e34c..02858db 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
   had before 8.3.0, i.e. there will be no leading `./` prefixes, unless `--exec`/`-x`,
   `--exec-batch`/`-X`, or `--print0`/`-0` are used. `--strip-cwd-prefix` can be used to strip that
   prefix in those cases. See #1046, #1115, and #1121 (@tavianator)
+- `fd` could previously crash with a panic due to a race condition in Rusts standard library
+  (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/39364). This has been fixed by switching to a different
+  message passing implementation, see #1060 and #1146 (@tavianator)
+- `fd`s memory usage will not grow unboundedly on huge directory trees, see #1146 (@tavianator)
 - fd returns an error when current working directory does not exist while a search path is
   specified, see #1072 (@vijfhoek)
 - Improved "command not found" error message, see #1083 and #1109 (@themkat)
@@ -17,9 +21,9 @@
 ## Changes
 
 - No leading `./` prefix for non-interactive results, see above.
+- fd now colorizes paths in parallel, significantly improving performance, see #1148 (@tavianator)
 - fd can now avoid `stat` syscalls even when colorizing paths, as long as the color scheme doesn't
   require metadata, see #1148 (@tavianator)
-- fd now colorizes paths in parallel, significantly improving performance, see #1148 (@tavianator)
 
 ## Other
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d539b6b..80c9b24 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -174,6 +174,16 @@ version = "0.8.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5827cebf4670468b8772dd191856768aedcb1b0278a04f989f7766351917b9dc"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "crossbeam-channel"
+version = "0.5.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c2dd04ddaf88237dc3b8d8f9a3c1004b506b54b3313403944054d23c0870c521"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "crossbeam-utils"
 version = "0.8.12"
@@ -307,6 +317,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "clap",
  "clap_complete",
+ "crossbeam-channel",
  "ctrlc",
  "diff",
  "dirs-next",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e23fc49..a75a005 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ dirs-next = "2.0"
 normpath = "0.3.2"
 chrono = "0.4"
 once_cell = "1.15.0"
+crossbeam-channel = "0.5.6"
 clap_complete = {version = "4.0", optional = true}
 
 [dependencies.clap]
diff --git a/src/exec/job.rs b/src/exec/job.rs
index 36d52e4..b2ea0a4 100644
--- a/src/exec/job.rs
+++ b/src/exec/job.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-use std::sync::mpsc::Receiver;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 
+use crossbeam_channel::Receiver;
+
 use crate::config::Config;
 use crate::dir_entry::DirEntry;
 use crate::error::print_error;
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ use super::CommandSet;
 /// generate a command with the supplied command template. The generated command will then
 /// be executed, and this process will continue until the receiver's sender has closed.
 pub fn job(
-    rx: Arc<Mutex<Receiver<WorkerResult>>>,
+    rx: Receiver<WorkerResult>,
     cmd: Arc<CommandSet>,
     out_perm: Arc<Mutex<()>>,
     config: &Config,
@@ -23,12 +24,9 @@ pub fn job(
 
     let mut results: Vec<ExitCode> = Vec::new();
     loop {
-        // Create a lock on the shared receiver for this thread.
-        let lock = rx.lock().unwrap();
-
         // Obtain the next result from the receiver, else if the channel
         // has closed, exit from the loop
-        let dir_entry: DirEntry = match lock.recv() {
+        let dir_entry: DirEntry = match rx.recv() {
             Ok(WorkerResult::Entry(dir_entry)) => dir_entry,
             Ok(WorkerResult::Error(err)) => {
                 if config.show_filesystem_errors {
@@ -39,8 +37,6 @@ pub fn job(
             Err(_) => break,
         };
 
-        // Drop the lock so that other threads can read from the receiver.
-        drop(lock);
         // Generate a command, execute it and store its exit code.
         results.push(cmd.execute(
             dir_entry.stripped_path(config),
diff --git a/src/walk.rs b/src/walk.rs
index b1931e3..280fbed 100644
--- a/src/walk.rs
+++ b/src/walk.rs
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ use std::io;
 use std::mem;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
-use std::sync::mpsc::{channel, Receiver, RecvTimeoutError, Sender};
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use std::thread;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 use std::{borrow::Cow, io::Write};
 
 use anyhow::{anyhow, Result};
+use crossbeam_channel::{bounded, Receiver, RecvTimeoutError, Sender};
 use ignore::overrides::OverrideBuilder;
 use ignore::{self, WalkBuilder};
 use regex::bytes::Regex;
@@ -49,14 +49,13 @@ pub const DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER_TIME: Duration = Duration::from_millis(100);
 /// If the `--exec` argument was supplied, this will create a thread pool for executing
 /// jobs in parallel from a given command line and the discovered paths. Otherwise, each
 /// path will simply be written to standard output.
-pub fn scan(path_vec: &[PathBuf], pattern: Arc<Regex>, config: Arc<Config>) -> Result<ExitCode> {
-    let mut path_iter = path_vec.iter();
-    let first_path_buf = path_iter
-        .next()
-        .expect("Error: Path vector can not be empty");
-    let (tx, rx) = channel();
+pub fn scan(paths: &[PathBuf], pattern: Arc<Regex>, config: Arc<Config>) -> Result<ExitCode> {
+    let first_path = &paths[0];
 
-    let mut override_builder = OverrideBuilder::new(first_path_buf.as_path());
+    // Channel capacity was chosen empircally to perform similarly to an unbounded channel
+    let (tx, rx) = bounded(0x4000 * config.threads);
+
+    let mut override_builder = OverrideBuilder::new(first_path);
 
     for pattern in &config.exclude_patterns {
         override_builder
@@ -67,7 +66,7 @@ pub fn scan(path_vec: &[PathBuf], pattern: Arc<Regex>, config: Arc<Config>) -> R
         .build()
         .map_err(|_| anyhow!("Mismatch in exclude patterns"))?;
 
-    let mut walker = WalkBuilder::new(first_path_buf.as_path());
+    let mut walker = WalkBuilder::new(first_path);
     walker
         .hidden(config.ignore_hidden)
         .ignore(config.read_fdignore)
@@ -121,8 +120,8 @@ pub fn scan(path_vec: &[PathBuf], pattern: Arc<Regex>, config: Arc<Config>) -> R
         }
     }
 
-    for path_entry in path_iter {
-        walker.add(path_entry.as_path());
+    for path in &paths[1..] {
+        walker.add(path);
     }
 
     let parallel_walker = walker.threads(config.threads).build_parallel();
@@ -225,11 +224,7 @@ impl<W: Write> ReceiverBuffer<W> {
         match self.mode {
             ReceiverMode::Buffering => {
                 // Wait at most until we should switch to streaming
-                let now = Instant::now();
-                self.deadline
-                    .checked_duration_since(now)
-                    .ok_or(RecvTimeoutError::Timeout)
-                    .and_then(|t| self.rx.recv_timeout(t))
+                self.rx.recv_deadline(self.deadline)
             }
             ReceiverMode::Streaming => {
                 // Wait however long it takes for a result
@@ -348,15 +343,13 @@ fn spawn_receiver(
             if cmd.in_batch_mode() {
                 exec::batch(rx, cmd, &config)
             } else {
-                let shared_rx = Arc::new(Mutex::new(rx));
-
                 let out_perm = Arc::new(Mutex::new(()));
 
                 // Each spawned job will store it's thread handle in here.
                 let mut handles = Vec::with_capacity(threads);
                 for _ in 0..threads {
                     let config = Arc::clone(&config);
-                    let rx = Arc::clone(&shared_rx);
+                    let rx = rx.clone();
                     let cmd = Arc::clone(cmd);
                     let out_perm = Arc::clone(&out_perm);