Comment 15 for bug 204413

I get a very similar problem when opening directories containing a large number of files but no media files. For example, opening /user/lib with nautilus can consume 50% of the processing power on my intel duo core2 for a sustained period of time and drain any where from 600mb to 1.2gb of memory. The memory drain has yet to consume all 3 gigs of my ram and completely crash my system, but nautilus does freeze and need to be restarted. cheers, phil.