diff --git a/comfy/utils.py b/comfy/utils.py
index 78c491b98..3f54ac324 100644
--- a/comfy/utils.py
+++ b/comfy/utils.py
@@ -119,6 +119,76 @@ def load_safetensors(ckpt):
     return sd, header.get("__metadata__", {}),
 
 
+def load_safetensors_no_mmap(ckpt, device=None, return_metadata=False):
+    # Load a .safetensors / .sft file without ever mmap'ing it.
+    #
+    # safetensors.safe_open() (and therefore safetensors.torch.load_file) always
+    # mmaps the underlying file in Rust. On systems with unified CPU/GPU memory
+    # like NVIDIA Grace Blackwell / DGX Spark, Apple Silicon, AMD APUs, etc.
+    # this is fatal for large models: the OS page-cache pages backing the mmap
+    # and any subsequent device copy both reside in the same physical memory
+    # pool, doubling peak memory and causing OOM well before the hardware
+    # limit is reached.
+    # See: https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI/issues/10896
+    #      https://github.com/safetensors/safetensors/issues/758
+    #      https://github.com/safetensors/safetensors/pull/759
+    #
+    # This is a temporary workaround until upstream safetensors exposes a
+    # public ``mmap=False`` option. Here we parse the safetensors header
+    # ourselves and read each tensor straight from disk into a per-tensor
+    # ``bytearray`` via ``readinto``, then zero-copy-wrap it as a torch tensor
+    # with ``torch.frombuffer``. Peak memory is one model copy (plus, if a
+    # non-CPU device is requested, the bytes of a single tensor in flight
+    # while it is being moved).
+    if device is None:
+        device = torch.device("cpu")
+
+    sd = {}
+    metadata = None
+    with open(ckpt, "rb") as f:
+        header_bytes = f.read(8)
+        if len(header_bytes) != 8:
+            raise ValueError("HeaderTooLarge: file is too small to be a valid safetensors file: {}".format(ckpt))
+        header_size = struct.unpack("<Q", header_bytes)[0]
+        header_data = f.read(header_size)
+        if len(header_data) != header_size:
+            raise ValueError("MetadataIncompleteBuffer: truncated header in {}".format(ckpt))
+        header = json.loads(header_data.decode("utf-8"))
+        data_base_offset = 8 + header_size
+
+        if return_metadata:
+            metadata = header.get("__metadata__", {})
+
+        for name, info in header.items():
+            if name == "__metadata__":
+                continue
+
+            dtype = _TYPES[info["dtype"]]
+            shape = info["shape"]
+            start, end = info["data_offsets"]
+            num_bytes = end - start
+
+            if num_bytes == 0:
+                tensor = torch.empty(shape, dtype=dtype)
+            else:
+                buf = bytearray(num_bytes)
+                f.seek(data_base_offset + start)
+                view = memoryview(buf)
+                offset = 0
+                while offset < num_bytes:
+                    n = f.readinto(view[offset:])
+                    if not n:
+                        raise ValueError("MetadataIncompleteBuffer: unexpected EOF reading tensor {!r} from {}".format(name, ckpt))
+                    offset += n
+                tensor = torch.frombuffer(buf, dtype=dtype).reshape(shape)
+
+            if device.type != "cpu":
+                tensor = tensor.to(device=device)
+            sd[name] = tensor
+
+    return sd, metadata
+
+
 def load_torch_file(ckpt, safe_load=False, device=None, return_metadata=False):
     if device is None:
         device = torch.device("cpu")
@@ -129,14 +199,15 @@ def load_torch_file(ckpt, safe_load=False, device=None, return_metadata=False):
                 sd, metadata = load_safetensors(ckpt)
                 if not return_metadata:
                     metadata = None
+            elif DISABLE_MMAP:
+                sd, metadata = load_safetensors_no_mmap(ckpt, device=device, return_metadata=return_metadata)
+                if not return_metadata:
+                    metadata = None
             else:
                 with safetensors.safe_open(ckpt, framework="pt", device=device.type) as f:
                     sd = {}
                     for k in f.keys():
-                        tensor = f.get_tensor(k)
-                        if DISABLE_MMAP:  # TODO: Not sure if this is the best way to bypass the mmap issues
-                            tensor = tensor.to(device=device, copy=True)
-                        sd[k] = tensor
+                        sd[k] = f.get_tensor(k)
                     if return_metadata:
                         metadata = f.metadata()
         except Exception as e: