If you have your video folder set to a zoom of 150% or more, try to set it back
to 100% and then reload the folder.
Do you still have excessive memory usage after this?
--
nautilus memory leak
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204413
You received this bug notification because you are a member of
I'm also experiencing this bug.
Nautilus will use most of my system memory when viewing folders with video
files with a zoom of 150% or more. It will always crash and restart when memory
usage builds up to about 500M.
If I set the zoom back to 100% and reload the folder, memory usage will remain