topic Re: How to create kill QV task in QlikView

How to create kill QV task

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi all,

I want to create a task which kills all running QV processes.

How do I do it?

Thanks,

Inna

Re: How to create kill QV task

oknotsen — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:15:36 GMT

Out of curiosity:

Why would you want to do this?

Re: How to create kill QV task

qlikmsg4u — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:17:36 GMT

You can create batch file that do the thing

use this code

taskkill /f /im "Qv.exe"

Re: How to create kill QV task

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:22:00 GMT

Hi,

I want to restart the QV machine.

So beforehand I want to kill all QV tasks so that they won't get stuck.

Re: How to create kill QV task

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:22:40 GMT

Hi ,

so to make this batch file and then to run it from tasks scheduler?

Re: How to create kill QV task

oknotsen — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:36 GMT

Restarting the machine will automatically kill all the (QlikView) services, which as a result will kill all the QlikView server service sessions.

I would suggest checking the QMC first to see if there are no tasks running though.

Re: How to create kill QV task

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:30:18 GMT

Hi,

one more question.

What kind of file should it be?

exe or txt?

Re: How to create kill QV task

oknotsen — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:45:19 GMT

.bat

Re: How to create kill QV task

marcus_sommer — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:46:44 GMT

This could be implemented in a more flexible vbs-script (see attachments) but I think you are working on symptoms and not on the causes. Why do you want to kill processes?

- Marcus

Re: How to create kill QV task

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:08:37 GMT

Hi,

I want to restart the QV machine.

So beforehand I want to kill all QV tasks so that they won't get stuck.

Re: How to create kill QV task

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:09:55 GMT

exactly these tasks I want to kill before restart.

So should I use the batch file as was suggested?

Re: How to create kill QV task

qlikviewwizard — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:31:49 GMT

Hi ,

Right click on QV.exe and click End Process tree.

Or Restart Qlikview Server at Loca Services of Qlikview Server machine. Hope this will help.

Re: How to create kill QV task

marcus_sommer — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:32:18 GMT

The restart from server will kill each process in the same way like such routine in beforehand - you won't not really get an advantage from those killings (unless there are some long timeout-settings for the OS to wait if a process didn't response in a certain time).

- Marcus

Re: How to create kill QV task

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:33:28 GMT

Hi Marcus I will try to manage just with restart.

Re: How to create kill QV task

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:34:06 GMT

Hi,

I know that option.

I needed something automatic, but now Marcus tells me that I don't need.

Re: How to create kill QV task

oknotsen — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:23:23 GMT

Question is:

Why would you want to automate the killing of the QV services and restarting of the machine?

This is not something you are going to do often. Exceptions being "needing to add more hardware" or "installing other software".

A common misconception is thinking QlikView has some sort of a "memory leak", because over time it eats up 70% of your RAM (and as a result people want to restart the server / service). This ("memory eating") is actually a good thing, as QlikView caches calculation in memory for speeding up your QlikView applications. Killing your server service will remove those cachings from memory and actually make your applications on average slower.

Re: How to create kill QV task

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:26:30 GMT

Wow, what a good point!

So I will disable this restart and share it with my team members!