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PlatoManiac
PlatoManiac

Reputation: 1442

Shutting down a windows process from Mathematica

One can see there are list of process running in a Windows operating system just by opening the task manager. Now my question is if it is possible to shut down one such process from Mathematica front end.

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I mean we need to write a script say to kill the "Process Tree" if the process is taking more than 95 percent of system RAM or it takes more than X minutes or seconds to complete. I dont know if that can be done from MMA but if possible it will come really handy in my project.

BR

Upvotes: 2

Views: 220

Answers (2)

Chris Degnen
Chris Degnen

Reputation: 8645

I used a method to shut down a process in my reply here:

How can I make Mathematica kernel pause for an external file creation

taskkill /f /fi "imagename eq apame_win64.exe"

E.g. shutting down notepad:

ReadList["!taskkill /F /FI \"IMAGENAME eq notepad.exe\"", String]

This can be used in conjunction with tasklist to identify memory use:

ReadList["!tasklist", String]

Upvotes: 2

Mr.Wizard
Mr.Wizard

Reputation: 24336

You will probably want to use the Run function, and the TSKILL shell command.

TSKILL processid | processname [/SERVER:servername] [/ID:sessionid | /A] [/V]

  processid           Process ID for the process to be terminated.
  processname         Process name to be terminated.
  /SERVER:servername  Server containing processID (default is current).
                         /ID or /A must be specified when using processname
                         and /SERVER
  /ID:sessionid       End process running under the specified session.
  /A                  End process running under ALL sessions.
  /V                  Display information about actions being performed.

Upvotes: 2

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