I am affected by this problem too, running Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit. "dirty files" seem to cause this problem on 64 bit systems. I solved it on my system by decreasing the dirty files cache. This article explains it in detail: http://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/22/better-linux-disk- caching-performance-vm-dirty_ratio/
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