oktw says to #ysitd
<licson>: Otherwise, quite a few people have said: 1) Happens on heavily fragmented filesystems (use xfs_db -c frag or xfs_info I think). You should defrag ASAP. 2) As a temporary work around drop the caches (echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches), which'll free some RAM. Source: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73831