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If you browse artifacts of a build and select e.g. a 200Mb NB build ZIP, heap usage goes up by 400Mb. Heap dump shows an unreferenced StringBuilder containing a 200-million-long char[] with the full contents of the file. AFAIK nothing in the Hudson module would be intentionally retrieving file contents without some action such as Ctrl-C, and anyway it would be using a byte[], not a StringBuilder. Suspect drag-n-drop (converting "file" to String ~ text/plain) but need to prove it.
No longer reproducible. Perhaps a dupe of issue #161055.