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How to auto-kill orphaned processes if there is still a live one?
I just started my first IT job last month for a company that makes/markets foodservice items (mostly bakeware/servingware), and we have a Lenovo M79 tower and a monitor set up just outside out CEO's office for the purpose of displaying the security cameras at our new warehouse. (very impressive....blah blah blah) We had to run the security camera IP addresses in firefox, but i can't remember exactly why.
We were hoping to make this run self-sufficient without anyone having to babysit it. I used a small app called caffeine to keep the computer from ever going to sleep, the firefox add-on "ReloadEvery" to refresh the page every 5 minutes so the stream doesn’t freeze up, and "Wise Memory Optimizer" which is SUPPOSED to clean the memory if it drops below a certain level (5GB), but here’s the problem:
Every time the page refreshes, it starts a new "jp2launcher" process for java. It doesn’t shut down the old ones, it just starts a new one. So the last time I checked in task manager, it had almost 80 "jp2launcher" processes sitting there doing nothing but taking up memory and just one that was actually running. I could barely get it to respond enough to restart it. I know I can shut them down one by one, but then i'm the babysitter stopping by several times a day to wipe it's butt. is there a program that could shut them down automatically as soon as they are orphaned even though there is one instance still running?
This computer has literally been used by no one else for anything else, so i wouldn't suspect malware.
Thanks in advance :)
MrWoody