diff --git a/manager/statsproc.go b/manager/statsproc.go
deleted file mode 100644
index b9fdb366..00000000
--- a/manager/statsproc.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package manager
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"log"
-
-	"github.com/google/cadvisor/info"
-	"github.com/google/cadvisor/storage"
-)
-
-type ContainerStats struct {
-	ContainerReference info.ContainerReference
-	Stats              *info.ContainerStats
-
-	// ResChan is nil if the sender wants to ignore the result
-	ResChan chan<- error
-}
-
-// Create numWorkers goroutines to write container stats info into the
-// specified storage.  Returns a write-only channel for the caller to write
-// container stats. Closing this channel will stop all workers.
-func StartContainerStatsWriters(
-	numWorkers int,
-	queueLength int,
-	statsWriter storage.StorageDriver,
-) (chan<- *ContainerStats, error) {
-	if statsWriter == nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid stats writer")
-	}
-	var ch chan *ContainerStats
-	if queueLength > 0 {
-		ch = make(chan *ContainerStats, queueLength)
-	} else {
-		ch = make(chan *ContainerStats)
-	}
-	for i := 0; i < numWorkers; i++ {
-		go writeContainerStats(statsWriter, ch)
-	}
-	return ch, nil
-}
-
-func writeContainerStats(statsWriter storage.StorageDriver, ch <-chan *ContainerStats) {
-	for stats := range ch {
-		err := statsWriter.Write(stats.ContainerReference, stats.Stats)
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("unable to write stats: %v", err)
-		}
-		if stats.ResChan != nil {
-			stats.ResChan <- err
-		}
-	}
-}