On 18 July 2018 at 20:13, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:58 AM Bruce Merry <bmerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, if there is no memory pressure such memory can stay around. > > On your production machine, before deleting memory containers, you can > try force_empty to reclaim such memory from them. See if that helps. Thanks. At the moment the cgroups are all managed by systemd and docker, but I'll keep that in mind while experimenting. Bruce -- Bruce Merry Senior Science Processing Developer SKA South Africa