In my testing this bug has nothing to do with the thumb-nailing of media
files. To reproduce the bug create a folder on your desktop called bug,
now inside the bug folder create a new folder called empty. Open System
Monitor so that you can watch the memory usage of nautilus. Now with
nautlus go into the empty folder once inside the empty folder go one
dirctory up, then go back into the empty folder, do this process about
100 times and you will see that the memory usage of nautilus slowly
starts growing.

With regards to thumb-nailing, if one has lots of media files in a
folder and one goes into that folder, the problem that is seen with
memory increase just by going into a empty folder is increased and the
problem shows it's self more easily, but the problem does exist even if
one does not use any media files.

I have tested this on intrepid (amd64) and jaunty (32-bit beta) with all 
current updates installed, problem still exists.
Hardware ranges from desktop system (intel quad core), laptop (intel dual core) 
and netbook (intel atom)

File systems range from ext2 (netbook) ext3 (desktop) ext4 (laptop)

I think the bug is a huge problem, because if one never switches off
your system, just by browsing around one's computer on a long enough
time line nautilus will consume a huge amout of ram.

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nautilus memory leak
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204413
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