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Windows Process Kill

Windows process kill kills the target processes that are running as a part of a Windows OS based VM. The services that are disrupted might be running in the VM, and this fault kills their underlying processes or threads.

Windows process kill

Use cases​

Windows process kill:

  • Determines the resilience of an application (or process) running on the Windows VMs.
  • Induces process kill using the process IDs and process name on the target Windows machines.
  • Simulates loss of processes, leading to degradation in the performance of application on the machine.

Prerequisites​

  • Ensure that the prerequisites are fulfilled before executing the experiment.

Mandatory tunables​

Tunable Description Notes
FORCE If set to "enable", the process is forcefully killed. Default: disable.
DURATION Duration that you specify, through which chaos is injected into the target resource (in seconds). Default: 30s. For more information, go to duration of the chaos.

Optional tunables​

Tunable Description Notes
PROCESS_IDS Process IDs of the target processes provided as comma-separated values. For example, 18375,25323,85657.
PROCESS_NAMES Comma separated list of process names to kill. For example, chrome.exe,firefox.exe.
RAMP_TIME Period to wait before and after injecting chaos (in seconds). For example, 30s. For more information, go to ramp time.

Parameters​

Following YAML snippet illustrates the use of these input variables.

apiVersion: litmuchaos.io/v1alpha1
kind: MachineFault
metadata:
  name: windows-process-kill
  labels:
    name: process-kill
spec:
  infraType: windows
  env:
    - name: PROCESS_IDS
      value: ""
    - name: PROCESS_NAMES
      value: ""
    - name: FORCE
      value: "disable"
    - name: DURATION
      value: "30s"
    - name: RAMP_TIME
      value: ""