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Posted: **28 Jul 2012 18:56**

Hi All,

I'm writing a batch file to monitor a particular process every couple of minutes and if the memory of this process is over a certain threshold, it is killed and then restarted.

I have this working now, but the problem I'm facing is when there are multiple instances of the same process. E.G. Each tab open in the Chrome web browser, uses it's own instance of Chrome.exe with a unique PID.

When I use the command

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tasklist /fi "imagename eq chrome.exe"

it lists all of the instances of chrome.exe and displays their PID's. However, when I use the code

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for /f "tokens=2,3" %%A in ('tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq chrome.exe"') do set PID=%%A

in my batch, it only provides the PID of the last instance of the process and not the first. I can use the command

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tasklist | find /I /C "chrome.exe"

to tell me the total number of instances, so I thought that I could create a loop to get each PID, but I'm not sure if this will work.

Would anyone be able to comment if this is at all possible and if so, any example code?

Thanks in advance!

Posted: **28 Jul 2012 21:46**

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Hi xga,

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@echo off &setlocal enableDelayedExpansion

set /a c = 0 &for /f "tokens=2,3" %%A in (

       'tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq chrome.exe"'

) do   set /a c += 1 &set "PID.!c!=%%A"

set "PID"
set "c"

pause

Posted: **29 Jul 2012 08:07**

Just wondering why you can't kill the task within the for loop. If you use the memusage option of tasklist, it should work like a charm.

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