Nemo memory leak

Nemo either has a memory leak or very bad memory management. Ubuntu 16.04 comes to a grinding halt on a PC with Nemo installed. This happened a number of times the last week (since nemo was installed because of its ability to have dual panes). The PC is switched off every night and some time during the day it becomes slower and slower until it comes to a grinding halt. This last time I was informed and was able to SSH in before the system completely died. Memory consumption was 100% and I had to kill some other app in order to open top. Nemo used 3.2GB at the time and after killing it, the system became responsive again.

Additional information that may be helpful: A smb share is used to access all company data from a central server. I have read about memory issues in Nemo and one person seems to think it is a thumbnail issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nemo 2.8.6-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-45.66-generic 4.4.21
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 17 15:24:30 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-10 (373 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20140807.1)
SourcePackage: nemo
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-10-15 (32 days ago)