I have several drivers running connected to .NET core applications in Windows SO.
Unfortunately, the application may crash due to an error.
When I see this situation, I need to close the application and browser manually, but the chromedriver process continues to run.
How do I identify which chromedriver matches the application I closed?
The question on Selenium : How to stop geckodriver process impacting PC memory, without calling driver.quit()? dont resolve this need.
Each time you initiate the execution of your tests a fresh set of ChromeDriver and google-chrome is created. So neither you are going to use the previous zombie ChromeDriver instances nor you would be able to access them.
The only optimal approach will be to kill them all and free up your system memory and you can use the following solution:
Python Solution(Cross Platform):
import os
import psutil
PROCNAME = "chromedriver"
for proc in psutil.process_iter():
# check whether the process name matches
if proc.name() == PROCNAME:
proc.kill()
You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:
