Nautilus prcesses not closing

[Manfred Murer <maillists manfred homeip net>]

I'm just thinking about switching over from KDE to Gnome. So I'm testing 
around a bit to see how it performs. So I found some ugly behaviours:

I noticed that once I opened an application's help (calendar for instance), I 
loose some 32 MB (!!) of RAM at once. This is not released anymore even after 
closing the help. Further investigation revealed that it's Nautilus starting 
6 (!!) instances of itself, and thus consuming 32 MB, just to display a 
little help file. How can this be??

Does anyone have an idea? I run a Gnome 1.4 (Ximian) with Nautilus 1.0.6 on a 
Mandrake 8.2 distribution.

Manfred