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brotherS:
Hi,

I really like Google Chrome, the only thing I couldn't figure out is how to quickly kill* / restart it... since it uses lots of processes (to prevent itself from going down completely when a tab freezes) I can't just kill one process like I could with Firefox.

Any ideas?

*to free up some needed memory

Curt:
Maybe you can talk f0dder into writing a "Trim-ChromeOnly-Memory"?
It would by far be the fastest way to free some memory.
If not, you can use his TrimAll:

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(...) If you need free RAM, don't overlook the brand new trimall by f0dder

Here you go :)  "trimall.exe" automatically trims all processes, has no GUI or status indication or whatever (thus the small size). It still won't trim system processes, and on a multi-user system it will probably only trim other people's processes if you have an administrative user account. -f0dder (April 20, 2007, 08:30 AM)
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-Curt (April 21, 2007, 05:37 PM)
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It will free up a lot of memory in less than 2 seconds!

f0dder:
Keep in mind that trimming is a pretty silly thing, since it does nothing that Windows itself won't do when it's finally necessary to do so - unused RAM is wasted RAM, and premature working-set trimming will most likely just put stuff in your pagefile unnecessarily.

As for killing chrome, perhaps SysInternals' "pskill" utility, which can kill processes from the commandline based on partial process name?

bgd77:
You can use Process Explorer, also from SysInternals, instead of Task Manager. In Process Explorer, Chrome has a "parent" process and each opened tab appears as a "child" process of this "parent" process. You can completely kill Chrome by killing the "parent" process. There is also an option, "Kill the Process Tree", but it seems it is not necessary in this case.

f0dder:
You can use Process Explorer, also from SysInternals, instead of Task Manager. In Process Explorer, Chrome has a "parent" process and each opened tab appears as a "child" process of this "parent" process. You can completely kill Chrome by killing the "parent" process. There is also an option, "Kill the Process Tree", but it seems it is not necessary in this case.
-bgd77 (October 09, 2009, 01:18 AM)
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Hm, that must be the Chrome child processes doing some "uh oh my parent is dead" checking, then - child processes normally aren't killed by terminating the parent.

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