Yup, I had a (tiny, spinning rust) home server that was slowed to nearly a halt. SSH logins would take minutes even when limiting IPFS to 2GiB of the 16GiB of RAM. Stopped go-ipfs and it was instantly snappy again.

My impression of the IPFS project is that the goals are excellent, the core protocol is quite good however they like rewriting the higher level layers far too frequently (for example they have deprecated UnixFS which seems to be the most used format and they keep switching between JSON, Protocol Buffers and CBOR) and go-ipfs seems to be a pretty garbage codebase.