How to kill processes that are older than half an hour in, say, Debian?

Question

Debian

I use headless chrome along with Puppeteer in cron, and sometimes it all hangs and processes remain in memory. Is it possible to beat them somehow? To kill all such processes I use

kill $(ps aux | grep 'node_modules' | awk '{print $2}')

Is it possible to somehow extract the start time of the process from ps aux, and beat only processes older than a certain time, for example, launched more than half an hour ago?
Also, due to the clogging of memory by such processes, cron stops working. Can something be done about it?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Get confused with cgroup and nail down the PID list, for example, otherwise you can do business like that.

Answer 2

Nail everything in a row along the crown. Cheap and reliable.

Answer 3

When starting the process, create a pid file (for example, adding pid to the file name so that they can all be in the same folder). To kill, search by creation time of pid files.

Answer 4

ps -e --sort lstart -o pid=,cmd=,lstart=
you can parse the start time of processes and kill them.