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[Shivam Khandelwal <skbly7@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also there is a fix for this, which I am using.

Follow these (assuming you are logged in with "user" account) :

user@hostname#>  sudo killall nautilus
user@hostname#>  sudo nautilus & 

(do add sudo while starting nautilus)

What I figured out was, in my laptop nautilus get started with "user" permissions instead of "root" on startup. This created permission issues, and thus nautilus end up taking so much resources. Running with "root" helped. 
These are the comparisons, if it can help to anyone :

While running with "user"
Overall computer load : 2.4
CPU : 110%

While running with "root"
Overall computer load : 0.3
CPU : 5%

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Title:
  Nautilus consuming memory and cpu

Status in Nautilus:
  New
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I noticed that Nautilus seemed sluggish after updating to 12.10
  yesterday. Clicks in the window may take a moment to register and the
  right click menu takes a few seconds to draw. This happens in nautilus
  windows and on the desktop, but I have not seen this behaviour in any
  other windows.

  I checked nautilus in the system-monitor and found that it was eating
  an excesive amount of memory (14.1/16 gb) and 72% of one cpu-core
  constantly. The memory starts out low at ~300mb ram and creeps up from
  there.

  Ubuntu 12.10

  nautilus:
    Installed: 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4
    Candidate: 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4
    Version table:
   *** 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  I've not filed an Ubuntu bug before and am somewhat unfamiliar with
  the process, so please let me know if there are reports or commands I
  can run that might be of more use.

  Thanks.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct 22 10:09:01 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
  GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'907x713+0+24'"
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: nautilus
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-21 (0 days ago)

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