Comment 24 for bug 952108

ubuntu 16.04 lts, default installation and the bug persists exactly as described in posts #22 & #23

Steps to reproduce:

1/ Open a folder with more than 10.000 images
2/ See memory usage by nautilus climbing to several gigs
3/ Closing the folder does not change anything
4/ kill nautilus and memory usage returns to normal

Things get much worst if you zoom the thumbnails with every zoom step

system used amd64 with 8Gb of ram