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Runaway Process Killer Extension
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===
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In particular cases Windows service wrapper may leak the process after the service completion.
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It happens when WinSW gets terminated without executing the shutdown logic.
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Examples: force kill of the service process, .NET Runtime crash, missing permissions to kill processes or a bug in the logic.
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Such runaway processes may conflict with the service process once it restarts.
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This extension allows preventing it by running the runaway process termination on startup before the executable gets started.
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Since: [WinSW 2.0](../../CHANGELOG.md).
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### Usage
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The extension can be configured via the [XML Configuration File](../xmlConfigFile.md). Configuration sample:
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```xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
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<service>
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<id>sampleService</id>
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<name>Sample service</name>
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<description>This is a stub service.</description>
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<executable>%BASE%\sleep.bat</executable>
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<arguments></arguments>
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<logmode>rotate</logmode>
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<extensions>
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<!-- This is a sample configuration for the RunawayProcessKiller extension. -->
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<extension enabled="true"
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className="winsw.Plugins.RunawayProcessKiller.RunawayProcessKillerExtension"
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id="killOnStartup">
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<!-- Absolute path to the PID file, which stores ID of the previously launched process. -->
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<pidfile>%BASE%\pid.txt</pidfile>
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<!-- Defines the process termination timeout in milliseconds.
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This timeout will be applied multiple times for each child process.
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After the timeout WinSW will try to force kill the process.
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-->
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<stopTimeout>5000</stopTimeout>
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<!-- If true, the parent process will be terminated first if the runaway process gets terminated. -->
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<stopParentFirst>false</stopParentFirst>
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</extension>
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</extensions>
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</service>
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```
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### Notes
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* The current implementation of the the extension checks only the root process (started executable)
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* If the runaway process is detected the entire, the entire process tree gets terminated
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* WinSW gives the runaway process a chance to the gracefully terminate.
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If it does not do it within the timeout, the process will be force-killed.
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* If the force kill fails, the WinSW startup continues with a warning. |