diff --git a/storage-app/src/shared/archive_helpers.py b/storage-app/src/shared/archive_helpers.py
index 2c9d42c..b686ae8 100644
--- a/storage-app/src/shared/archive_helpers.py
+++ b/storage-app/src/shared/archive_helpers.py
@@ -238,13 +238,13 @@ def __init__(
         self.queue = queue
         self.max_concurrent = max_concurrent
         self._done = False
+        self.iter_count = 0
 
     @property
     def ready(self) -> bool: return self._done
 
     async def produce(self):
         tasks = []
-        iter_count = 0
 
         while await self.object_set.fetch_next:
             file = self.object_set.next_object()
@@ -254,8 +254,8 @@ async def produce(self):
                 await wait(tasks, return_when=FIRST_COMPLETED)
                 tasks = [task for task in tasks if not task.done()]
 
-            iter_count += 1
-            if not iter_count % GC_FREQ: gc_collect()
+            self.iter_count += 1
+            if not self.iter_count % GC_FREQ: gc_collect()
 
         await gather(*tasks)
         self.queue.put(None)
diff --git a/storage-app/src/shared/settings.py b/storage-app/src/shared/settings.py
index 699327b..66dd30a 100644
--- a/storage-app/src/shared/settings.py
+++ b/storage-app/src/shared/settings.py
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 
 assert STORAGE_PORT
 
-ASYNC_PRODUCER_MAX_CONCURRENT: int = 1_000
-ASYNC_PRODUCER_GC_FREQ: int = 100
+ASYNC_PRODUCER_MAX_CONCURRENT: int = 256
+ASYNC_PRODUCER_GC_FREQ: int = 256
 APP_BACKEND_URL: str = "http://" + getenv("APP_BACKEND_URL", "127.0.0.1")
 SECRET_KEY: str = getenv("SECRET_KEY", "")
 SECRET_ALGO: str = getenv("SECRET_ALGO", "HS256")
diff --git a/storage-app/src/shared/worker_services.py b/storage-app/src/shared/worker_services.py
index 2aab557..231ed4c 100644
--- a/storage-app/src/shared/worker_services.py
+++ b/storage-app/src/shared/worker_services.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from .hasher import VHash, IHash
 from queue import Queue
 from .archive_helpers import FileProducer, ZipConsumer, ZipWriter
+from celery import Task
 
 
 class EmbeddingStatus(Enum):
@@ -34,13 +35,18 @@ class Zipper:
     written: bool = False
     archive_extension: str = "zip"
 
-    def __init__(self, bucket_name: str, file_ids: list[str]) -> None:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        bucket_name: str,
+        file_ids: list[str],
+        task: Task
+    ) -> None:
         self.object_set = Bucket(bucket_name).get_download_objects(file_ids)
+        self.bucket_name = bucket_name
+        self._task = task
 
         self._get_annotation(bucket_name, file_ids)
 
-        self.bucket_name = bucket_name
-
     async def archive_objects(self) -> Optional[bool]:
         json_data: Any = ("annotation.json", dumps(self.annotation, indent=4).encode("utf-8"))
 
@@ -61,7 +67,9 @@ async def archive_objects(self) -> Optional[bool]:
             if wait_list.task.ready:
                 wait_list = wait_list.next
                 continue
-            await async_stall_for(1)
+
+            self._task.update_state(state="PROGRESS")
+            await async_stall_for(5)
 
         await producer_task
         await self.object_set.close()
diff --git a/storage-app/src/worker.py b/storage-app/src/worker.py
index dc60567..72ca3d6 100644
--- a/storage-app/src/worker.py
+++ b/storage-app/src/worker.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from celery import Celery
 from shared.settings import BROKER_URL, RESULT_URL, CELERY_CONFIG
 from shared.worker_services import Zipper, Hasher, EmbeddingStatus
-from asyncio import get_event_loop
+from asyncio import run
 from typing import Optional, Any
 from json import JSONEncoder, loads, dumps
 from kombu.serialization import register
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ def default(self, o) -> Any: return getattr(o, "__json__", super().default)(o)
 )
 
 
-@worker.task(name="produce_download_task")
-def produce_download_task(bucket_name: str, file_ids: list[str]) -> str | None:
-    task = Zipper(bucket_name, file_ids)
-    get_event_loop().run_until_complete(task.archive_objects())
+@worker.task(bind=True, name="produce_download_task")
+def produce_download_task(self, bucket_name: str, file_ids: list[str]) -> str | None:
+    task = Zipper(bucket_name, file_ids, self)
+    run(task.archive_objects())
     return task.archive_id