Re: Showing /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.stat very slow on some machines

From: Bruce Merry
Date: Wed Jul 18 2018 - 14:44:00 EST


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
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Bruce Merry
Senior Science Processing Developer
SKA South Africa