On Wed 18-07-18 00:01:10, David Frank wrote: > Thanks Mike. I read the doc, which is not explicit on the non used file taking up huge page count What do you consider non user file? The file contains a data somebody might want to read later. You cannot simply remove it. This is not different to any other in memory filesystem (e.g. tmpfs, ramfs) -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs