On 64bit Windows, 32bit processes run in wow64 translation layer. These processes have a different memory layout, which prevents winp from correctly finding all the processes executed in a context of a build and killing them.
We need to improve 64bit version of winp so that it can correctly recognize wow64 processes and list up their environment variables, so that Jenkins can kill them.
Originally reported by 
kohsuke, imported from: Kill win32 processes from win64 JVMs
- assignee: kohsuke
- status: Resolved
- priority: Major
- component(s): core
- label(s): 1.565.2-fixed
- resolution: Fixed
- resolved: 2014-06-12T05:31:30+00:00
- votes: 0
- watchers: 4
- imported: 2025-11-24
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On 64bit Windows, 32bit processes run in wow64 translation layer. These processes have a different memory layout, which prevents winp from correctly finding all the processes executed in a context of a build and killing them.
We need to improve 64bit version of winp so that it can correctly recognize wow64 processes and list up their environment variables, so that Jenkins can kill them.
On 64bit Windows, 32bit processes run in wow64 translation layer. These processes have a different memory layout, which prevents winp from correctly finding all the processes executed in a context of a build and killing them.
We need to improve 64bit version of winp so that it can correctly recognize wow64 processes and list up their environment variables, so that Jenkins can kill them.
Originally reported by
kohsuke, imported from: Kill win32 processes from win64 JVMs
Raw content of original issue