Is that memory increase seen in peak usage or average/idle usage?

For file servers, I could be willing to give up 350 MB of memory temporarily for large-scale indexing and thumbnailing operations if it doesn't happen often and makes the file serving/browsing more responsive.

On the other hand, plenty of NAS/file server systems are going to have paltry CPU and memory. Running slower with a more modest memory foot print might be the only way to keep the system stable.