I can reproduce this very easily. Just download a 30G file with wget.
The kernel fills up your memory until the machine starts swapping. Most
consuming memory area is the cache memory.
$ free
Gesamt Belegt Frei Gemeinsam Puffer Cached
Speicher: 16374340 15801164 573176 138524 88 9082352
-/+ Puffer/Cache: 6718724 9655616
Auslagerungsdatei: 16777208 1397596 15379612
Image is stored in an XFS filesystem on a rotating disc partition.
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