Steve, I just wanted to say thanks for the quick and detailed response - this is extremely helpful. It could take a few days before we can report back on which of these recommendations was most helpful, given some challenges with reproducing the problem. We've been upgrading some VMs to Kernel 5.0 using: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack and so far the results look very promising... Cheers, James