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Pipe answer from tasklist to check mem usage of process and kill if exceeding threshold

I found a powershell version that does the job but it uses WMI and thats the process i have issue with, its leaking and hits the 512MB roof and stops working 'out of memory'.


$processToMonitor = 'wmiprvse.exe'
$threshold = 513MB

Register-WmiEvent -Query 'SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 5 WHERE TargetInstance ISA 'Win32_Process' AND TargetInstance.Name='$processToMonitor' AND TargetInstance.WorkingSetSize > $threshold' -Action { Get-Process -PID $event.SourceEventArgs.NewEvent.TargetInstance.ProcessId | Stop-Process -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null }


So the above will not work when WMI is out of memory, so could i use some other way of doing the same thing?

If i use:


tasklist | find 'WmiPrvSE.exe'


It spits out the current WmiPrvSE processes with pid, and memory usage. And ideas of how i can use that?

There is a patch for this WMI leak issue but i cant patch all servers as soon as i want.

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