diff --git a/api/handler.go b/api/handler.go
index 2f934dbb..c0378b67 100644
--- a/api/handler.go
+++ b/api/handler.go
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func RegisterHandlers(mux httpmux.Mux, m manager.Manager) error {
 }
 
 // Captures the API version, requestType [optional], and remaining request [optional].
-var apiRegexp = regexp.MustCompile("/api/([^/]+)/?([^/]+)?(.*)")
+var apiRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`/api/([^/]+)/?([^/]+)?(.*)`)
 
 const (
 	apiVersion = iota + 1
diff --git a/container/docker/factory.go b/container/docker/factory.go
index 9e5083e8..5656beda 100644
--- a/container/docker/factory.go
+++ b/container/docker/factory.go
@@ -172,9 +172,12 @@ func (self *dockerFactory) DebugInfo() map[string][]string {
 	return map[string][]string{}
 }
 
+var (
+	version_regexp_string = `(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)`
+	version_re            = regexp.MustCompile(version_regexp_string)
+)
+
 func parseDockerVersion(full_version_string string) ([]int, error) {
-	version_regexp_string := "(\\d+)\\.(\\d+)\\.(\\d+)"
-	version_re := regexp.MustCompile(version_regexp_string)
 	matches := version_re.FindAllStringSubmatch(full_version_string, -1)
 	if len(matches) != 1 {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("version string \"%v\" doesn't match expected regular expression: \"%v\"", full_version_string, version_regexp_string)
diff --git a/container/libcontainer/helpers.go b/container/libcontainer/helpers.go
index acf02796..c8ac01e3 100644
--- a/container/libcontainer/helpers.go
+++ b/container/libcontainer/helpers.go
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"path"
-	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -202,8 +201,6 @@ func scanTcpStats(tcpStatsFile string) (info.TcpStat, error) {
 		return stats, fmt.Errorf("failure opening %s: %v", tcpStatsFile, err)
 	}
 
-	tcpStatLineRE, _ := regexp.Compile("[0-9:].*")
-
 	tcpStateMap := map[string]uint64{
 		"01": 0, //ESTABLISHED
 		"02": 0, //SYN_SENT
@@ -223,18 +220,24 @@ func scanTcpStats(tcpStatsFile string) (info.TcpStat, error) {
 
 	scanner.Split(bufio.ScanLines)
 
+	// Discard header line
+	b := scanner.Scan()
+	if !b {
+		return stats, scanner.Err()
+	}
+
 	for scanner.Scan() {
-
 		line := scanner.Text()
-		//skip header
-		matched := tcpStatLineRE.MatchString(line)
 
-		if matched {
-			state := strings.Fields(line)
-			//#file header tcp state is the 4 filed:
-			//sl local_address rem_address st tx_queue rx_queue tr tm->when retrnsmt  uid timeout inode
-			tcpStateMap[state[3]]++
+		state := strings.Fields(line)
+		// TCP state is the 4th field.
+		// Format: sl local_address rem_address st tx_queue rx_queue tr tm->when retrnsmt  uid timeout inode
+		tcpState := state[3]
+		_, ok := tcpStateMap[tcpState]
+		if !ok {
+			return stats, fmt.Errorf("invalid TCP stats line: %v", line)
 		}
+		tcpStateMap[tcpState]++
 	}
 
 	stats = info.TcpStat{
diff --git a/fs/fs.go b/fs/fs.go
index a6af45a6..b7913cdd 100644
--- a/fs/fs.go
+++ b/fs/fs.go
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/golang/glog"
 )
 
-var partitionRegex = regexp.MustCompile("^(:?(:?s|xv)d[a-z]+\\d*|dm-\\d+)$")
-
 const (
 	LabelSystemRoot   = "root"
 	LabelDockerImages = "docker-images"
@@ -223,6 +221,8 @@ func (self *RealFsInfo) GetFsInfoForPath(mountSet map[string]struct{}) ([]Fs, er
 	return filesystems, nil
 }
 
+var partitionRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`^(?:(?:s|xv)d[a-z]+\d*|dm-\d+)$`)
+
 func getDiskStatsMap(diskStatsFile string) (map[string]DiskStats, error) {
 	diskStatsMap := make(map[string]DiskStats)
 	file, err := os.Open(diskStatsFile)
diff --git a/integration/common/gce.go b/integration/common/gce.go
index 604d27b4..c6a5a276 100644
--- a/integration/common/gce.go
+++ b/integration/common/gce.go
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ import (
 var zone = flag.String("zone", "us-central1-f", "Zone the instances are running in")
 var project = flag.String("project", "", "Project the instances are running in")
 
-var gceInternalIpRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(" +networkIP: +([0-9.:]+)\n")
-var gceExternalIpRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(" +natIP: +([0-9.:]+)\n")
+var gceInternalIpRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`\s+networkIP:\s+([0-9.:]+)\n`)
+var gceExternalIpRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`\s+natIP:\s+([0-9.:]+)\n`)
 
 // Gets the IP of the specified GCE instance.
 func GetGceIp(hostname string) (string, error) {
diff --git a/manager/container.go b/manager/container.go
index 6f530da1..ca55d555 100644
--- a/manager/container.go
+++ b/manager/container.go
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ import (
 // Housekeeping interval.
 var HousekeepingInterval = flag.Duration("housekeeping_interval", 1*time.Second, "Interval between container housekeepings")
 
-var cgroupPathRegExp = regexp.MustCompile(".*devices.*:(.*?)[,;$].*")
+var cgroupPathRegExp = regexp.MustCompile(`.*devices.*:(.*?)[,;$].*`)
 
 // Decay value used for load average smoothing. Interval length of 10 seconds is used.
 var loadDecay = math.Exp(float64(-1 * (*HousekeepingInterval).Seconds() / 10))
diff --git a/metrics/prometheus_test.go b/metrics/prometheus_test.go
index 26068822..278290fd 100644
--- a/metrics/prometheus_test.go
+++ b/metrics/prometheus_test.go
@@ -152,6 +152,11 @@ func (p testSubcontainersInfoProvider) SubcontainersInfo(string, *info.Container
 	}, nil
 }
 
+var (
+	includeRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^(?:(?:# HELP |# TYPE)container_|cadvisor_version_info\{)`)
+	ignoreRe  = regexp.MustCompile(`^container_last_seen\{`)
+)
+
 func TestPrometheusCollector(t *testing.T) {
 	prometheus.MustRegister(NewPrometheusCollector(testSubcontainersInfoProvider{}, nil))
 
@@ -171,8 +176,6 @@ func TestPrometheusCollector(t *testing.T) {
 	// (https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/issues/58), we simply compare
 	// verbatim text-format metrics outputs, but ignore certain metric lines
 	// whose value depends on the current time or local circumstances.
-	includeRe := regexp.MustCompile("^(?:(?:# HELP |# TYPE)container_|cadvisor_version_info{)")
-	ignoreRe := regexp.MustCompile("^container_last_seen{")
 	for i, want := range wantLines {
 		if !includeRe.MatchString(want) || ignoreRe.MatchString(want) {
 			continue
diff --git a/utils/machine/machine.go b/utils/machine/machine.go
index def6844d..baa11de4 100644
--- a/utils/machine/machine.go
+++ b/utils/machine/machine.go
@@ -34,12 +34,17 @@ import (
 
 // The utils/machine package contains functions that extract machine-level specs.
 
-var cpuRegExp = regexp.MustCompile("processor\\t*: +([0-9]+)")
-var coreRegExp = regexp.MustCompile("core id\\t*: +([0-9]+)")
-var nodeRegExp = regexp.MustCompile("physical id\\t*: +([0-9]+)")
-var CpuClockSpeedMHz = regexp.MustCompile("cpu MHz\\t*: +([0-9]+.[0-9]+)")
-var memoryCapacityRegexp = regexp.MustCompile("MemTotal: *([0-9]+) kB")
-var swapCapacityRegexp = regexp.MustCompile("SwapTotal: *([0-9]+) kB")
+var (
+	cpuRegExp  = regexp.MustCompile(`^processor\s*:\s*([0-9]+)$`)
+	coreRegExp = regexp.MustCompile(`^core id\s*:\s*([0-9]+)$`)
+	nodeRegExp = regexp.MustCompile(`^physical id\s*:\s*([0-9]+)$`)
+	// Power systems have a different format so cater for both
+	cpuClockSpeedMHz     = regexp.MustCompile(`(?:cpu MHz|clock)\s*:\s*([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)(?:MHz)?`)
+	memoryCapacityRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`MemTotal:\s*([0-9]+) kB`)
+	swapCapacityRegexp   = regexp.MustCompile(`SwapTotal:\s*([0-9]+) kB`)
+)
+
+const maxFreqFile = "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq"
 
 // GetClockSpeed returns the CPU clock speed, given a []byte formatted as the /proc/cpuinfo file.
 func GetClockSpeed(procInfo []byte) (uint64, error) {
@@ -49,7 +54,6 @@ func GetClockSpeed(procInfo []byte) (uint64, error) {
 	}
 
 	// First look through sys to find a max supported cpu frequency.
-	const maxFreqFile = "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq"
 	if utils.FileExists(maxFreqFile) {
 		val, err := ioutil.ReadFile(maxFreqFile)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -63,15 +67,11 @@ func GetClockSpeed(procInfo []byte) (uint64, error) {
 		return maxFreq, nil
 	}
 	// Fall back to /proc/cpuinfo
-	matches := CpuClockSpeedMHz.FindSubmatch(procInfo)
+	matches := cpuClockSpeedMHz.FindSubmatch(procInfo)
 	if len(matches) != 2 {
-		//Check if we are running on Power systems which have a different format
-		CpuClockSpeedMHz, _ = regexp.Compile("clock\\t*: +([0-9]+.[0-9]+)MHz")
-		matches = CpuClockSpeedMHz.FindSubmatch(procInfo)
-		if len(matches) != 2 {
-			return 0, fmt.Errorf("could not detect clock speed from output: %q", string(procInfo))
-		}
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("could not detect clock speed from output: %q", string(procInfo))
 	}
+
 	speed, err := strconv.ParseFloat(string(matches[1]), 64)
 	if err != nil {
 		return 0, err
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ func GetTopology(sysFs sysfs.SysFs, cpuinfo string) ([]info.Node, int, error) {
 	lastCore := -1
 	lastNode := -1
 	for _, line := range strings.Split(cpuinfo, "\n") {
+		if line == "" {
+			continue
+		}
 		ok, val, err := extractValue(line, cpuRegExp)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, -1, fmt.Errorf("could not parse cpu info from %q: %v", line, err)
@@ -157,6 +160,7 @@ func GetTopology(sysFs sysfs.SysFs, cpuinfo string) ([]info.Node, int, error) {
 				lastNode = -1
 			}
 			lastThread = thread
+			continue
 		}
 		ok, val, err = extractValue(line, coreRegExp)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -164,6 +168,7 @@ func GetTopology(sysFs sysfs.SysFs, cpuinfo string) ([]info.Node, int, error) {
 		}
 		if ok {
 			lastCore = val
+			continue
 		}
 		ok, val, err = extractValue(line, nodeRegExp)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -171,6 +176,7 @@ func GetTopology(sysFs sysfs.SysFs, cpuinfo string) ([]info.Node, int, error) {
 		}
 		if ok {
 			lastNode = val
+			continue
 		}
 	}
 	nodeIdx, err := addNode(&nodes, lastNode)
@@ -213,7 +219,7 @@ func extractValue(s string, r *regexp.Regexp) (bool, int, error) {
 	if len(matches) == 2 {
 		val, err := strconv.ParseInt(string(matches[1]), 10, 32)
 		if err != nil {
-			return true, -1, err
+			return false, -1, err
 		}
 		return true, int(val), nil
 	}
diff --git a/utils/machine/topology_test.go b/utils/machine/topology_test.go
index 0c3f1588..26ea9a0a 100644
--- a/utils/machine/topology_test.go
+++ b/utils/machine/topology_test.go
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ func TestTopology(t *testing.T) {
 	sysFs.SetCacheInfo(c)
 	topology, numCores, err := GetTopology(sysFs, string(testcpuinfo))
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("failed to get topology for sample cpuinfo %s", string(testcpuinfo))
+		t.Errorf("failed to get topology for sample cpuinfo %s: %v", string(testcpuinfo), err)
 	}
 
 	if numCores != 12 {
diff --git a/utils/oomparser/oomparser.go b/utils/oomparser/oomparser.go
index a1c9bd1c..b5253982 100644
--- a/utils/oomparser/oomparser.go
+++ b/utils/oomparser/oomparser.go
@@ -29,12 +29,11 @@ import (
 	"github.com/google/cadvisor/utils"
 )
 
-var containerRegexp *regexp.Regexp = regexp.MustCompile(
-	`Task in (.*) killed as a result of limit of (.*)`)
-var lastLineRegexp *regexp.Regexp = regexp.MustCompile(
-	`(^[A-Z]{1}[a-z]{2} .*[0-9]{1,2} [0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}) .* Killed process ([0-9]+) \(([0-9A-Za-z_]+)\)`)
-var firstLineRegexp *regexp.Regexp = regexp.MustCompile(
-	`invoked oom-killer:`)
+var (
+	containerRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`Task in (.*) killed as a result of limit of (.*)`)
+	lastLineRegexp  = regexp.MustCompile(`(^[A-Z][a-z]{2} .*[0-9]{1,2} [0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}) .* Killed process ([0-9]+) \(([\w]+)\)`)
+	firstLineRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`invoked oom-killer:`)
+)
 
 // struct to hold file from which we obtain OomInstances
 type OomParser struct {
diff --git a/utils/sysinfo/sysinfo.go b/utils/sysinfo/sysinfo.go
index 27017389..8f7acc74 100644
--- a/utils/sysinfo/sysinfo.go
+++ b/utils/sysinfo/sysinfo.go
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/google/cadvisor/utils/sysfs"
 )
 
-var schedulerRegExp = regexp.MustCompile(".*\\[(.*)\\].*")
+var schedulerRegExp = regexp.MustCompile(`.*\[(.*)\].*`)
 
 // Get information about block devices present on the system.
 // Uses the passed in system interface to retrieve the low level OS information.
@@ -65,18 +65,14 @@ func GetBlockDeviceInfo(sysfs sysfs.SysFs) (map[string]info.DiskInfo, error) {
 		// size is in 512 bytes blocks.
 		disk_info.Size = size * 512
 
-		sched, err := sysfs.GetBlockDeviceScheduler(name)
-		if err != nil {
-			sched = "none"
-		} else {
-			matches := schedulerRegExp.FindSubmatch([]byte(sched))
-			if len(matches) < 2 {
-				sched = "none"
-			} else {
-				sched = string(matches[1])
+		disk_info.Scheduler = "none"
+		blkSched, err := sysfs.GetBlockDeviceScheduler(name)
+		if err == nil {
+			matches := schedulerRegExp.FindSubmatch([]byte(blkSched))
+			if len(matches) >= 2 {
+				disk_info.Scheduler = string(matches[1])
 			}
 		}
-		disk_info.Scheduler = sched
 		device := fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", disk_info.Major, disk_info.Minor)
 		diskMap[device] = disk_info
 	}