It often happens that doesn’t work – and there’s seemingly no garbage collection in place to clean up old FMSCore.

So we created a simple AutoIt script which can be compiled to an EXE which works, but it has some dependancies…

The following dependencies / commands must all be in place:

• c:\Windows\system32\pv.exe
• c:\Windows\system32\pslist.exe
• c:\Windows\system32\pskill.exe

How it works

• the script uses pv.exe to find all FMS Core processes which have a command line argument that includes “flvplayerapp” (which is only for recorded courses)
• for each of the returned process ids
• it uses pslist to list details which include the age of the process
• it uses a regex match find the “hours it’s been running”
• if longer than 5 hours (a configurable parameter) it uses pskill to kill the process.

So we set this up on an hourly scheduled task and it handles garbage collection for us.

Source:  fmscore-killer-source.au3