Automatically Restart a Process

[Hi P]

This is pretty much a follow up on my other post:

 

The problem didn't go away.

 

Do you guys know of any free program to automatically kill / reset a process if it's taking x amount of memory?

 

I found "Process Lasso" but the Watchdog function is trial period only.

 

Edit:

For the curious, it seems to be an on-going Wacom bug for the past 2 years according to this post

http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1897&start=10

 

 

[xAcid9]

1 hour ago, Hi P said:

Do you guys know of any free program to automatically kill / reset a process if it's taking x amount of memory?

Maybe you can just create a task scheduler to kill the process every X minutes.

[Hi P]

18 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Maybe you can just create a task scheduler to kill the process every X minutes.

the problem is that process either goes up little by little (I've seen it happen), in which case your method would work a 100%

 

But there are cases when it suddenly goes up, in the span of 5 seconds, from 30 mb to as much RAM as your system has, in which case your method wouldn't stop it from happening

 

[xAcid9]

28 minutes ago, Hi P said:

the problem is that process either goes up little by little (I've seen it happen), in which case your method would work a 100%

 

But there are cases when it suddenly goes up, in the span of 5 seconds, from 30 mb to as much RAM as your system has, in which case your method wouldn't stop it from happening

 

I Google and mashed up this script.

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
:start
set _mem=0
for /f "skip=3 usebackq tokens=5" %%i in (`tasklist /fi "<process name>"`) do (
  set /a _mem += %%i
  )
echo Total Memory = !_mem! K

if !_mem! GTR <memory in KB> taskkill /im <process name.exe> /f
endlocal

save as bat file and use Task Scheduler to run it maybe every 60 secs. 

use Task Scheduler hidden option if you don't want to see it popup every minute.