[python] How to get current CPU and RAM usage in Python?

What's your preferred way of getting current system status (current CPU, RAM, free disk space, etc.) in Python? Bonus points for *nix and Windows platforms.

There seems to be a few possible ways of extracting that from my search:

  1. Using a library such as PSI (that currently seems not actively developed and not supported on multiple platform) or something like pystatgrab (again no activity since 2007 it seems and no support for Windows).

  2. Using platform specific code such as using a os.popen("ps") or similar for the *nix systems and MEMORYSTATUS in ctypes.windll.kernel32 (see this recipe on ActiveState) for the Windows platform. One could put a Python class together with all those code snippets.

It's not that those methods are bad but is there already a well-supported, multi-platform way of doing the same thing?

This question is related to python system cpu status ram

The answer is


Here's something I put together a while ago, it's windows only but may help you get part of what you need done.

Derived from: "for sys available mem" http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455130.aspx

"individual process information and python script examples" http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true

NOTE: the WMI interface/process is also available for performing similar tasks I'm not using it here because the current method covers my needs, but if someday it's needed to extend or improve this, then may want to investigate the WMI tools a vailable.

WMI for python:

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

The code:

'''
Monitor window processes

derived from:
>for sys available mem
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455130.aspx

> individual process information and python script examples
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true

NOTE: the WMI interface/process is also available for performing similar tasks
        I'm not using it here because the current method covers my needs, but if someday it's needed
        to extend or improve this module, then may want to investigate the WMI tools available.
        WMI for python:
        http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html
'''

__revision__ = 3

import win32com.client
from ctypes import *
from ctypes.wintypes import *
import pythoncom
import pywintypes
import datetime


class MEMORYSTATUS(Structure):
    _fields_ = [
                ('dwLength', DWORD),
                ('dwMemoryLoad', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalPhys', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailPhys', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalPageFile', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailPageFile', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalVirtual', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailVirtual', DWORD),
                ]


def winmem():
    x = MEMORYSTATUS() # create the structure
    windll.kernel32.GlobalMemoryStatus(byref(x)) # from cytypes.wintypes
    return x    


class process_stats:
    '''process_stats is able to provide counters of (all?) the items available in perfmon.
    Refer to the self.supported_types keys for the currently supported 'Performance Objects'

    To add logging support for other data you can derive the necessary data from perfmon:
    ---------
    perfmon can be run from windows 'run' menu by entering 'perfmon' and enter.
    Clicking on the '+' will open the 'add counters' menu,
    From the 'Add Counters' dialog, the 'Performance object' is the self.support_types key.
    --> Where spaces are removed and symbols are entered as text (Ex. # == Number, % == Percent)
    For the items you wish to log add the proper attribute name in the list in the self.supported_types dictionary,
    keyed by the 'Performance Object' name as mentioned above.
    ---------

    NOTE: The 'NETFramework_NETCLRMemory' key does not seem to log dotnet 2.0 properly.

    Initially the python implementation was derived from:
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true
    '''
    def __init__(self,process_name_list=[],perf_object_list=[],filter_list=[]):
        '''process_names_list == the list of all processes to log (if empty log all)
        perf_object_list == list of process counters to log
        filter_list == list of text to filter
        print_results == boolean, output to stdout
        '''
        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread

        self.process_name_list = process_name_list
        self.perf_object_list = perf_object_list
        self.filter_list = filter_list

        self.win32_perf_base = 'Win32_PerfFormattedData_'

        # Define new datatypes here!
        self.supported_types = {
                                    'NETFramework_NETCLRMemory':    [
                                                                        'Name',
                                                                        'NumberTotalCommittedBytes',
                                                                        'NumberTotalReservedBytes',
                                                                        'NumberInducedGC',    
                                                                        'NumberGen0Collections',
                                                                        'NumberGen1Collections',
                                                                        'NumberGen2Collections',
                                                                        'PromotedMemoryFromGen0',
                                                                        'PromotedMemoryFromGen1',
                                                                        'PercentTimeInGC',
                                                                        'LargeObjectHeapSize'
                                                                     ],

                                    'PerfProc_Process':              [
                                                                          'Name',
                                                                          'PrivateBytes',
                                                                          'ElapsedTime',
                                                                          'IDProcess',# pid
                                                                          'Caption',
                                                                          'CreatingProcessID',
                                                                          'Description',
                                                                          'IODataBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IODataOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOOtherBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOOtherOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOReadBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOReadOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOWriteBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOWriteOperationsPersec'     
                                                                      ]
                                }

    def get_pid_stats(self, pid):
        this_proc_dict = {}

        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
        if not self.perf_object_list:
            perf_object_list = self.supported_types.keys()

        for counter_type in perf_object_list:
            strComputer = "."
            objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
            objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")

            query_str = '''Select * from %s%s''' % (self.win32_perf_base,counter_type)
            colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery(query_str) # "Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")# changed from Win32_Thread        

            if len(colItems) > 0:        
                for objItem in colItems:
                    if hasattr(objItem, 'IDProcess') and pid == objItem.IDProcess:

                            for attribute in self.supported_types[counter_type]:
                                eval_str = 'objItem.%s' % (attribute)
                                this_proc_dict[attribute] = eval(eval_str)

                            this_proc_dict['TimeStamp'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.') + str(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)[:3]
                            break

        return this_proc_dict      


    def get_stats(self):
        '''
        Show process stats for all processes in given list, if none given return all processes   
        If filter list is defined return only the items that match or contained in the list
        Returns a list of result dictionaries
        '''    
        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
        proc_results_list = []
        if not self.perf_object_list:
            perf_object_list = self.supported_types.keys()

        for counter_type in perf_object_list:
            strComputer = "."
            objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
            objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")

            query_str = '''Select * from %s%s''' % (self.win32_perf_base,counter_type)
            colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery(query_str) # "Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")# changed from Win32_Thread

            try:  
                if len(colItems) > 0:
                    for objItem in colItems:
                        found_flag = False
                        this_proc_dict = {}

                        if not self.process_name_list:
                            found_flag = True
                        else:
                            # Check if process name is in the process name list, allow print if it is
                            for proc_name in self.process_name_list:
                                obj_name = objItem.Name
                                if proc_name.lower() in obj_name.lower(): # will log if contains name
                                    found_flag = True
                                    break

                        if found_flag:
                            for attribute in self.supported_types[counter_type]:
                                eval_str = 'objItem.%s' % (attribute)
                                this_proc_dict[attribute] = eval(eval_str)

                            this_proc_dict['TimeStamp'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.') + str(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)[:3]
                            proc_results_list.append(this_proc_dict)

            except pywintypes.com_error, err_msg:
                # Ignore and continue (proc_mem_logger calls this function once per second)
                continue
        return proc_results_list     


def get_sys_stats():
    ''' Returns a dictionary of the system stats'''
    pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
    x = winmem()

    sys_dict = { 
                    'dwAvailPhys': x.dwAvailPhys,
                    'dwAvailVirtual':x.dwAvailVirtual
                }
    return sys_dict


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # This area used for testing only
    sys_dict = get_sys_stats()

    stats_processor = process_stats(process_name_list=['process2watch'],perf_object_list=[],filter_list=[])
    proc_results = stats_processor.get_stats()

    for result_dict in proc_results:
        print result_dict

    import os
    this_pid = os.getpid()
    this_proc_results = stats_processor.get_pid_stats(this_pid)

    print 'this proc results:'
    print this_proc_results

http://monkut.webfactional.com/blog/archive/2009/1/21/windows-process-memory-logging-python


"... current system status (current CPU, RAM, free disk space, etc.)" And "*nix and Windows platforms" can be a difficult combination to achieve.

The operating systems are fundamentally different in the way they manage these resources. Indeed, they differ in core concepts like defining what counts as system and what counts as application time.

"Free disk space"? What counts as "disk space?" All partitions of all devices? What about foreign partitions in a multi-boot environment?

I don't think there's a clear enough consensus between Windows and *nix that makes this possible. Indeed, there may not even be any consensus between the various operating systems called Windows. Is there a single Windows API that works for both XP and Vista?


We chose to use usual information source for this because we could find instantaneous fluctuations in free memory and felt querying the meminfo data source was helpful. This also helped us get a few more related parameters that were pre-parsed.

Code

import os

linux_filepath = "/proc/meminfo"
meminfo = dict(
    (i.split()[0].rstrip(":"), int(i.split()[1]))
    for i in open(linux_filepath).readlines()
)
meminfo["memory_total_gb"] = meminfo["MemTotal"] / (2 ** 20)
meminfo["memory_free_gb"] = meminfo["MemFree"] / (2 ** 20)
meminfo["memory_available_gb"] = meminfo["MemAvailable"] / (2 ** 20)

Output for reference (we stripped all newlines for further analysis)

MemTotal: 1014500 kB MemFree: 562680 kB MemAvailable: 646364 kB Buffers: 15144 kB Cached: 210720 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 261476 kB Inactive: 128888 kB Active(anon): 167092 kB Inactive(anon): 20888 kB Active(file): 94384 kB Inactive(file): 108000 kB Unevictable: 3652 kB Mlocked: 3652 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 168160 kB Mapped: 81352 kB Shmem: 21060 kB Slab: 34492 kB SReclaimable: 18044 kB SUnreclaim: 16448 kB KernelStack: 2672 kB PageTables: 8180 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 507248 kB Committed_AS: 1038756 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 88064 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB CmaFree: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 43008 kB DirectMap2M: 1005568 kB


Here's something I put together a while ago, it's windows only but may help you get part of what you need done.

Derived from: "for sys available mem" http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455130.aspx

"individual process information and python script examples" http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true

NOTE: the WMI interface/process is also available for performing similar tasks I'm not using it here because the current method covers my needs, but if someday it's needed to extend or improve this, then may want to investigate the WMI tools a vailable.

WMI for python:

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

The code:

'''
Monitor window processes

derived from:
>for sys available mem
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455130.aspx

> individual process information and python script examples
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true

NOTE: the WMI interface/process is also available for performing similar tasks
        I'm not using it here because the current method covers my needs, but if someday it's needed
        to extend or improve this module, then may want to investigate the WMI tools available.
        WMI for python:
        http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html
'''

__revision__ = 3

import win32com.client
from ctypes import *
from ctypes.wintypes import *
import pythoncom
import pywintypes
import datetime


class MEMORYSTATUS(Structure):
    _fields_ = [
                ('dwLength', DWORD),
                ('dwMemoryLoad', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalPhys', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailPhys', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalPageFile', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailPageFile', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalVirtual', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailVirtual', DWORD),
                ]


def winmem():
    x = MEMORYSTATUS() # create the structure
    windll.kernel32.GlobalMemoryStatus(byref(x)) # from cytypes.wintypes
    return x    


class process_stats:
    '''process_stats is able to provide counters of (all?) the items available in perfmon.
    Refer to the self.supported_types keys for the currently supported 'Performance Objects'

    To add logging support for other data you can derive the necessary data from perfmon:
    ---------
    perfmon can be run from windows 'run' menu by entering 'perfmon' and enter.
    Clicking on the '+' will open the 'add counters' menu,
    From the 'Add Counters' dialog, the 'Performance object' is the self.support_types key.
    --> Where spaces are removed and symbols are entered as text (Ex. # == Number, % == Percent)
    For the items you wish to log add the proper attribute name in the list in the self.supported_types dictionary,
    keyed by the 'Performance Object' name as mentioned above.
    ---------

    NOTE: The 'NETFramework_NETCLRMemory' key does not seem to log dotnet 2.0 properly.

    Initially the python implementation was derived from:
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true
    '''
    def __init__(self,process_name_list=[],perf_object_list=[],filter_list=[]):
        '''process_names_list == the list of all processes to log (if empty log all)
        perf_object_list == list of process counters to log
        filter_list == list of text to filter
        print_results == boolean, output to stdout
        '''
        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread

        self.process_name_list = process_name_list
        self.perf_object_list = perf_object_list
        self.filter_list = filter_list

        self.win32_perf_base = 'Win32_PerfFormattedData_'

        # Define new datatypes here!
        self.supported_types = {
                                    'NETFramework_NETCLRMemory':    [
                                                                        'Name',
                                                                        'NumberTotalCommittedBytes',
                                                                        'NumberTotalReservedBytes',
                                                                        'NumberInducedGC',    
                                                                        'NumberGen0Collections',
                                                                        'NumberGen1Collections',
                                                                        'NumberGen2Collections',
                                                                        'PromotedMemoryFromGen0',
                                                                        'PromotedMemoryFromGen1',
                                                                        'PercentTimeInGC',
                                                                        'LargeObjectHeapSize'
                                                                     ],

                                    'PerfProc_Process':              [
                                                                          'Name',
                                                                          'PrivateBytes',
                                                                          'ElapsedTime',
                                                                          'IDProcess',# pid
                                                                          'Caption',
                                                                          'CreatingProcessID',
                                                                          'Description',
                                                                          'IODataBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IODataOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOOtherBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOOtherOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOReadBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOReadOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOWriteBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOWriteOperationsPersec'     
                                                                      ]
                                }

    def get_pid_stats(self, pid):
        this_proc_dict = {}

        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
        if not self.perf_object_list:
            perf_object_list = self.supported_types.keys()

        for counter_type in perf_object_list:
            strComputer = "."
            objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
            objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")

            query_str = '''Select * from %s%s''' % (self.win32_perf_base,counter_type)
            colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery(query_str) # "Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")# changed from Win32_Thread        

            if len(colItems) > 0:        
                for objItem in colItems:
                    if hasattr(objItem, 'IDProcess') and pid == objItem.IDProcess:

                            for attribute in self.supported_types[counter_type]:
                                eval_str = 'objItem.%s' % (attribute)
                                this_proc_dict[attribute] = eval(eval_str)

                            this_proc_dict['TimeStamp'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.') + str(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)[:3]
                            break

        return this_proc_dict      


    def get_stats(self):
        '''
        Show process stats for all processes in given list, if none given return all processes   
        If filter list is defined return only the items that match or contained in the list
        Returns a list of result dictionaries
        '''    
        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
        proc_results_list = []
        if not self.perf_object_list:
            perf_object_list = self.supported_types.keys()

        for counter_type in perf_object_list:
            strComputer = "."
            objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
            objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")

            query_str = '''Select * from %s%s''' % (self.win32_perf_base,counter_type)
            colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery(query_str) # "Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")# changed from Win32_Thread

            try:  
                if len(colItems) > 0:
                    for objItem in colItems:
                        found_flag = False
                        this_proc_dict = {}

                        if not self.process_name_list:
                            found_flag = True
                        else:
                            # Check if process name is in the process name list, allow print if it is
                            for proc_name in self.process_name_list:
                                obj_name = objItem.Name
                                if proc_name.lower() in obj_name.lower(): # will log if contains name
                                    found_flag = True
                                    break

                        if found_flag:
                            for attribute in self.supported_types[counter_type]:
                                eval_str = 'objItem.%s' % (attribute)
                                this_proc_dict[attribute] = eval(eval_str)

                            this_proc_dict['TimeStamp'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.') + str(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)[:3]
                            proc_results_list.append(this_proc_dict)

            except pywintypes.com_error, err_msg:
                # Ignore and continue (proc_mem_logger calls this function once per second)
                continue
        return proc_results_list     


def get_sys_stats():
    ''' Returns a dictionary of the system stats'''
    pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
    x = winmem()

    sys_dict = { 
                    'dwAvailPhys': x.dwAvailPhys,
                    'dwAvailVirtual':x.dwAvailVirtual
                }
    return sys_dict


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # This area used for testing only
    sys_dict = get_sys_stats()

    stats_processor = process_stats(process_name_list=['process2watch'],perf_object_list=[],filter_list=[])
    proc_results = stats_processor.get_stats()

    for result_dict in proc_results:
        print result_dict

    import os
    this_pid = os.getpid()
    this_proc_results = stats_processor.get_pid_stats(this_pid)

    print 'this proc results:'
    print this_proc_results

http://monkut.webfactional.com/blog/archive/2009/1/21/windows-process-memory-logging-python


Only for Linux: One-liner for the RAM usage with only stdlib dependency:

import os
tot_m, used_m, free_m = map(int, os.popen('free -t -m').readlines()[-1].split()[1:])

edit: specified solution OS dependency


Taken feedback from first response and done small changes

            #!/usr/bin/env python
            #Execute commond on windows machine to install psutil>>>>python -m pip install psutil
            import psutil

            print ('                                                                   ')
            print ('----------------------CPU Information summary----------------------')
            print ('                                                                   ')

            # gives a single float value
            vcc=psutil.cpu_count()
            print ('Total number of CPUs :',vcc)

            vcpu=psutil.cpu_percent()
            print ('Total CPUs utilized percentage :',vcpu,'%')

            print ('                                                                   ')
            print ('----------------------RAM Information summary----------------------')
            print ('                                                                   ')
            # you can convert that object to a dictionary 
            #print(dict(psutil.virtual_memory()._asdict()))
            # gives an object with many fields
            vvm=psutil.virtual_memory()

            x=dict(psutil.virtual_memory()._asdict())

            def forloop():
                for i in x:
                    print (i,"--",x[i]/1024/1024/1024)#Output will be printed in GBs

            forloop()
            print ('                                                                   ')
            print ('----------------------RAM Utilization summary----------------------')
            print ('                                                                   ')
            # you can have the percentage of used RAM
            print('Percentage of used RAM :',psutil.virtual_memory().percent,'%')
            #79.2
            # you can calculate percentage of available memory
            print('Percentage of available RAM :',psutil.virtual_memory().available * 100 / psutil.virtual_memory().total,'%')
            #20.8

We chose to use usual information source for this because we could find instantaneous fluctuations in free memory and felt querying the meminfo data source was helpful. This also helped us get a few more related parameters that were pre-parsed.

Code

import os

linux_filepath = "/proc/meminfo"
meminfo = dict(
    (i.split()[0].rstrip(":"), int(i.split()[1]))
    for i in open(linux_filepath).readlines()
)
meminfo["memory_total_gb"] = meminfo["MemTotal"] / (2 ** 20)
meminfo["memory_free_gb"] = meminfo["MemFree"] / (2 ** 20)
meminfo["memory_available_gb"] = meminfo["MemAvailable"] / (2 ** 20)

Output for reference (we stripped all newlines for further analysis)

MemTotal: 1014500 kB MemFree: 562680 kB MemAvailable: 646364 kB Buffers: 15144 kB Cached: 210720 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 261476 kB Inactive: 128888 kB Active(anon): 167092 kB Inactive(anon): 20888 kB Active(file): 94384 kB Inactive(file): 108000 kB Unevictable: 3652 kB Mlocked: 3652 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 168160 kB Mapped: 81352 kB Shmem: 21060 kB Slab: 34492 kB SReclaimable: 18044 kB SUnreclaim: 16448 kB KernelStack: 2672 kB PageTables: 8180 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 507248 kB Committed_AS: 1038756 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 88064 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB CmaFree: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 43008 kB DirectMap2M: 1005568 kB


you can read /proc/meminfo to get used memory

file1 = open('/proc/meminfo', 'r') 

for line in file1: 
    if 'MemTotal' in line: 
        x = line.split()
        memTotal = int(x[1])
        
    if 'Buffers' in line: 
        x = line.split()
        buffers = int(x[1])
        
    if 'Cached' in line and 'SwapCached' not in line: 
        x = line.split()
        cached = int(x[1])
    
    if 'MemFree' in line: 
        x = line.split()
        memFree = int(x[1])

file1.close()

percentage_used = int ( ( memTotal - (buffers + cached + memFree) ) / memTotal * 100 )
print(percentage_used)

This aggregate all the goodies: psutil + os to get Unix & Windows compatibility: That allows us to get:

  1. CPU
  2. memory
  3. disk

code:

import os
import psutil  # need: pip install psutil

In [32]: psutil.virtual_memory()
Out[32]: svmem(total=6247907328, available=2502328320, percent=59.9, used=3327135744, free=167067648, active=3671199744, inactive=1662668800,     buffers=844783616, cached=1908920320, shared=123912192, slab=613048320)

In [33]: psutil.virtual_memory().percent
Out[33]: 60.0

In [34]: psutil.cpu_percent()
Out[34]: 5.5

In [35]: os.sep
Out[35]: '/'

In [36]: psutil.disk_usage(os.sep)
Out[36]: sdiskusage(total=50190790656, used=41343860736, free=6467502080, percent=86.5)

In [37]: psutil.disk_usage(os.sep).percent
Out[37]: 86.5

Taken feedback from first response and done small changes

            #!/usr/bin/env python
            #Execute commond on windows machine to install psutil>>>>python -m pip install psutil
            import psutil

            print ('                                                                   ')
            print ('----------------------CPU Information summary----------------------')
            print ('                                                                   ')

            # gives a single float value
            vcc=psutil.cpu_count()
            print ('Total number of CPUs :',vcc)

            vcpu=psutil.cpu_percent()
            print ('Total CPUs utilized percentage :',vcpu,'%')

            print ('                                                                   ')
            print ('----------------------RAM Information summary----------------------')
            print ('                                                                   ')
            # you can convert that object to a dictionary 
            #print(dict(psutil.virtual_memory()._asdict()))
            # gives an object with many fields
            vvm=psutil.virtual_memory()

            x=dict(psutil.virtual_memory()._asdict())

            def forloop():
                for i in x:
                    print (i,"--",x[i]/1024/1024/1024)#Output will be printed in GBs

            forloop()
            print ('                                                                   ')
            print ('----------------------RAM Utilization summary----------------------')
            print ('                                                                   ')
            # you can have the percentage of used RAM
            print('Percentage of used RAM :',psutil.virtual_memory().percent,'%')
            #79.2
            # you can calculate percentage of available memory
            print('Percentage of available RAM :',psutil.virtual_memory().available * 100 / psutil.virtual_memory().total,'%')
            #20.8

"... current system status (current CPU, RAM, free disk space, etc.)" And "*nix and Windows platforms" can be a difficult combination to achieve.

The operating systems are fundamentally different in the way they manage these resources. Indeed, they differ in core concepts like defining what counts as system and what counts as application time.

"Free disk space"? What counts as "disk space?" All partitions of all devices? What about foreign partitions in a multi-boot environment?

I don't think there's a clear enough consensus between Windows and *nix that makes this possible. Indeed, there may not even be any consensus between the various operating systems called Windows. Is there a single Windows API that works for both XP and Vista?


To get a line-by-line memory and time analysis of your program, I suggest using memory_profiler and line_profiler.

Installation:

# Time profiler
$ pip install line_profiler
# Memory profiler
$ pip install memory_profiler
# Install the dependency for a faster analysis
$ pip install psutil

The common part is, you specify which function you want to analyse by using the respective decorators.

Example: I have several functions in my Python file main.py that I want to analyse. One of them is linearRegressionfit(). I need to use the decorator @profile that helps me profile the code with respect to both: Time & Memory.

Make the following changes to the function definition

@profile
def linearRegressionfit(Xt,Yt,Xts,Yts):
    lr=LinearRegression()
    model=lr.fit(Xt,Yt)
    predict=lr.predict(Xts)
    # More Code

For Time Profiling,

Run:

$ kernprof -l -v main.py

Output

Total time: 0.181071 s
File: main.py
Function: linearRegressionfit at line 35

Line #      Hits         Time  Per Hit   % Time  Line Contents
==============================================================
    35                                           @profile
    36                                           def linearRegressionfit(Xt,Yt,Xts,Yts):
    37         1         52.0     52.0      0.1      lr=LinearRegression()
    38         1      28942.0  28942.0     75.2      model=lr.fit(Xt,Yt)
    39         1       1347.0   1347.0      3.5      predict=lr.predict(Xts)
    40                                           
    41         1       4924.0   4924.0     12.8      print("train Accuracy",lr.score(Xt,Yt))
    42         1       3242.0   3242.0      8.4      print("test Accuracy",lr.score(Xts,Yts))

For Memory Profiling,

Run:

$ python -m memory_profiler main.py

Output

Filename: main.py

Line #    Mem usage    Increment   Line Contents
================================================
    35  125.992 MiB  125.992 MiB   @profile
    36                             def linearRegressionfit(Xt,Yt,Xts,Yts):
    37  125.992 MiB    0.000 MiB       lr=LinearRegression()
    38  130.547 MiB    4.555 MiB       model=lr.fit(Xt,Yt)
    39  130.547 MiB    0.000 MiB       predict=lr.predict(Xts)
    40                             
    41  130.547 MiB    0.000 MiB       print("train Accuracy",lr.score(Xt,Yt))
    42  130.547 MiB    0.000 MiB       print("test Accuracy",lr.score(Xts,Yts))

Also, the memory profiler results can also be plotted using matplotlib using

$ mprof run main.py
$ mprof plot

enter image description here Note: Tested on

line_profiler version == 3.0.2

memory_profiler version == 0.57.0

psutil version == 5.7.0


EDIT: The results from the profilers can be parsed using the TAMPPA package. Using it, we can get line-by-line desired plots as plot


Below codes, without external libraries worked for me. I tested at Python 2.7.9

CPU Usage

import os

    CPU_Pct=str(round(float(os.popen('''grep 'cpu ' /proc/stat | awk '{usage=($2+$4)*100/($2+$4+$5)} END {print usage }' ''').readline()),2))

    #print results
    print("CPU Usage = " + CPU_Pct)

And Ram Usage, Total, Used and Free

import os
mem=str(os.popen('free -t -m').readlines())
"""
Get a whole line of memory output, it will be something like below
['             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached\n', 
'Mem:           925        591        334         14         30        355\n', 
'-/+ buffers/cache:        205        719\n', 
'Swap:           99          0         99\n', 
'Total:        1025        591        434\n']
 So, we need total memory, usage and free memory.
 We should find the index of capital T which is unique at this string
"""
T_ind=mem.index('T')
"""
Than, we can recreate the string with this information. After T we have,
"Total:        " which has 14 characters, so we can start from index of T +14
and last 4 characters are also not necessary.
We can create a new sub-string using this information
"""
mem_G=mem[T_ind+14:-4]
"""
The result will be like
1025        603        422
we need to find first index of the first space, and we can start our substring
from from 0 to this index number, this will give us the string of total memory
"""
S1_ind=mem_G.index(' ')
mem_T=mem_G[0:S1_ind]
"""
Similarly we will create a new sub-string, which will start at the second value. 
The resulting string will be like
603        422
Again, we should find the index of first space and than the 
take the Used Memory and Free memory.
"""
mem_G1=mem_G[S1_ind+8:]
S2_ind=mem_G1.index(' ')
mem_U=mem_G1[0:S2_ind]

mem_F=mem_G1[S2_ind+8:]
print 'Summary = ' + mem_G
print 'Total Memory = ' + mem_T +' MB'
print 'Used Memory = ' + mem_U +' MB'
print 'Free Memory = ' + mem_F +' MB'

I don't believe that there is a well-supported multi-platform library available. Remember that Python itself is written in C so any library is simply going to make a smart decision about which OS-specific code snippet to run, as you suggested above.


you can read /proc/meminfo to get used memory

file1 = open('/proc/meminfo', 'r') 

for line in file1: 
    if 'MemTotal' in line: 
        x = line.split()
        memTotal = int(x[1])
        
    if 'Buffers' in line: 
        x = line.split()
        buffers = int(x[1])
        
    if 'Cached' in line and 'SwapCached' not in line: 
        x = line.split()
        cached = int(x[1])
    
    if 'MemFree' in line: 
        x = line.split()
        memFree = int(x[1])

file1.close()

percentage_used = int ( ( memTotal - (buffers + cached + memFree) ) / memTotal * 100 )
print(percentage_used)

Here's something I put together a while ago, it's windows only but may help you get part of what you need done.

Derived from: "for sys available mem" http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455130.aspx

"individual process information and python script examples" http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true

NOTE: the WMI interface/process is also available for performing similar tasks I'm not using it here because the current method covers my needs, but if someday it's needed to extend or improve this, then may want to investigate the WMI tools a vailable.

WMI for python:

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

The code:

'''
Monitor window processes

derived from:
>for sys available mem
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455130.aspx

> individual process information and python script examples
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true

NOTE: the WMI interface/process is also available for performing similar tasks
        I'm not using it here because the current method covers my needs, but if someday it's needed
        to extend or improve this module, then may want to investigate the WMI tools available.
        WMI for python:
        http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html
'''

__revision__ = 3

import win32com.client
from ctypes import *
from ctypes.wintypes import *
import pythoncom
import pywintypes
import datetime


class MEMORYSTATUS(Structure):
    _fields_ = [
                ('dwLength', DWORD),
                ('dwMemoryLoad', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalPhys', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailPhys', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalPageFile', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailPageFile', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalVirtual', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailVirtual', DWORD),
                ]


def winmem():
    x = MEMORYSTATUS() # create the structure
    windll.kernel32.GlobalMemoryStatus(byref(x)) # from cytypes.wintypes
    return x    


class process_stats:
    '''process_stats is able to provide counters of (all?) the items available in perfmon.
    Refer to the self.supported_types keys for the currently supported 'Performance Objects'

    To add logging support for other data you can derive the necessary data from perfmon:
    ---------
    perfmon can be run from windows 'run' menu by entering 'perfmon' and enter.
    Clicking on the '+' will open the 'add counters' menu,
    From the 'Add Counters' dialog, the 'Performance object' is the self.support_types key.
    --> Where spaces are removed and symbols are entered as text (Ex. # == Number, % == Percent)
    For the items you wish to log add the proper attribute name in the list in the self.supported_types dictionary,
    keyed by the 'Performance Object' name as mentioned above.
    ---------

    NOTE: The 'NETFramework_NETCLRMemory' key does not seem to log dotnet 2.0 properly.

    Initially the python implementation was derived from:
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true
    '''
    def __init__(self,process_name_list=[],perf_object_list=[],filter_list=[]):
        '''process_names_list == the list of all processes to log (if empty log all)
        perf_object_list == list of process counters to log
        filter_list == list of text to filter
        print_results == boolean, output to stdout
        '''
        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread

        self.process_name_list = process_name_list
        self.perf_object_list = perf_object_list
        self.filter_list = filter_list

        self.win32_perf_base = 'Win32_PerfFormattedData_'

        # Define new datatypes here!
        self.supported_types = {
                                    'NETFramework_NETCLRMemory':    [
                                                                        'Name',
                                                                        'NumberTotalCommittedBytes',
                                                                        'NumberTotalReservedBytes',
                                                                        'NumberInducedGC',    
                                                                        'NumberGen0Collections',
                                                                        'NumberGen1Collections',
                                                                        'NumberGen2Collections',
                                                                        'PromotedMemoryFromGen0',
                                                                        'PromotedMemoryFromGen1',
                                                                        'PercentTimeInGC',
                                                                        'LargeObjectHeapSize'
                                                                     ],

                                    'PerfProc_Process':              [
                                                                          'Name',
                                                                          'PrivateBytes',
                                                                          'ElapsedTime',
                                                                          'IDProcess',# pid
                                                                          'Caption',
                                                                          'CreatingProcessID',
                                                                          'Description',
                                                                          'IODataBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IODataOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOOtherBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOOtherOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOReadBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOReadOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOWriteBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOWriteOperationsPersec'     
                                                                      ]
                                }

    def get_pid_stats(self, pid):
        this_proc_dict = {}

        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
        if not self.perf_object_list:
            perf_object_list = self.supported_types.keys()

        for counter_type in perf_object_list:
            strComputer = "."
            objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
            objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")

            query_str = '''Select * from %s%s''' % (self.win32_perf_base,counter_type)
            colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery(query_str) # "Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")# changed from Win32_Thread        

            if len(colItems) > 0:        
                for objItem in colItems:
                    if hasattr(objItem, 'IDProcess') and pid == objItem.IDProcess:

                            for attribute in self.supported_types[counter_type]:
                                eval_str = 'objItem.%s' % (attribute)
                                this_proc_dict[attribute] = eval(eval_str)

                            this_proc_dict['TimeStamp'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.') + str(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)[:3]
                            break

        return this_proc_dict      


    def get_stats(self):
        '''
        Show process stats for all processes in given list, if none given return all processes   
        If filter list is defined return only the items that match or contained in the list
        Returns a list of result dictionaries
        '''    
        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
        proc_results_list = []
        if not self.perf_object_list:
            perf_object_list = self.supported_types.keys()

        for counter_type in perf_object_list:
            strComputer = "."
            objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
            objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")

            query_str = '''Select * from %s%s''' % (self.win32_perf_base,counter_type)
            colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery(query_str) # "Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")# changed from Win32_Thread

            try:  
                if len(colItems) > 0:
                    for objItem in colItems:
                        found_flag = False
                        this_proc_dict = {}

                        if not self.process_name_list:
                            found_flag = True
                        else:
                            # Check if process name is in the process name list, allow print if it is
                            for proc_name in self.process_name_list:
                                obj_name = objItem.Name
                                if proc_name.lower() in obj_name.lower(): # will log if contains name
                                    found_flag = True
                                    break

                        if found_flag:
                            for attribute in self.supported_types[counter_type]:
                                eval_str = 'objItem.%s' % (attribute)
                                this_proc_dict[attribute] = eval(eval_str)

                            this_proc_dict['TimeStamp'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.') + str(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)[:3]
                            proc_results_list.append(this_proc_dict)

            except pywintypes.com_error, err_msg:
                # Ignore and continue (proc_mem_logger calls this function once per second)
                continue
        return proc_results_list     


def get_sys_stats():
    ''' Returns a dictionary of the system stats'''
    pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
    x = winmem()

    sys_dict = { 
                    'dwAvailPhys': x.dwAvailPhys,
                    'dwAvailVirtual':x.dwAvailVirtual
                }
    return sys_dict


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # This area used for testing only
    sys_dict = get_sys_stats()

    stats_processor = process_stats(process_name_list=['process2watch'],perf_object_list=[],filter_list=[])
    proc_results = stats_processor.get_stats()

    for result_dict in proc_results:
        print result_dict

    import os
    this_pid = os.getpid()
    this_proc_results = stats_processor.get_pid_stats(this_pid)

    print 'this proc results:'
    print this_proc_results

http://monkut.webfactional.com/blog/archive/2009/1/21/windows-process-memory-logging-python


I feel like these answers were written for Python 2, and in any case nobody's made mention of the standard resource package that's available for Python 3. It provides commands for obtaining the resource limits of a given process (the calling Python process by default). This isn't the same as getting the current usage of resources by the system as a whole, but it could solve some of the same problems like e.g. "I want to make sure I only use X much RAM with this script."


Use the psutil library. On Ubuntu 18.04, pip installed 5.5.0 (latest version) as of 1-30-2019. Older versions may behave somewhat differently. You can check your version of psutil by doing this in Python:

from __future__ import print_function  # for Python2
import psutil
print(psutil.__versi??on__)

To get some memory and CPU stats:

from __future__ import print_function
import psutil
print(psutil.cpu_percent())
print(psutil.virtual_memory())  # physical memory usage
print('memory % used:', psutil.virtual_memory()[2])

The virtual_memory (tuple) will have the percent memory used system-wide. This seemed to be overestimated by a few percent for me on Ubuntu 18.04.

You can also get the memory used by the current Python instance:

import os
import psutil
pid = os.getpid()
py = psutil.Process(pid)
memoryUse = py.memory_info()[0]/2.**30  # memory use in GB...I think
print('memory use:', memoryUse)

which gives the current memory use of your Python script.

There are some more in-depth examples on the pypi page for psutil.


I don't believe that there is a well-supported multi-platform library available. Remember that Python itself is written in C so any library is simply going to make a smart decision about which OS-specific code snippet to run, as you suggested above.


To get a line-by-line memory and time analysis of your program, I suggest using memory_profiler and line_profiler.

Installation:

# Time profiler
$ pip install line_profiler
# Memory profiler
$ pip install memory_profiler
# Install the dependency for a faster analysis
$ pip install psutil

The common part is, you specify which function you want to analyse by using the respective decorators.

Example: I have several functions in my Python file main.py that I want to analyse. One of them is linearRegressionfit(). I need to use the decorator @profile that helps me profile the code with respect to both: Time & Memory.

Make the following changes to the function definition

@profile
def linearRegressionfit(Xt,Yt,Xts,Yts):
    lr=LinearRegression()
    model=lr.fit(Xt,Yt)
    predict=lr.predict(Xts)
    # More Code

For Time Profiling,

Run:

$ kernprof -l -v main.py

Output

Total time: 0.181071 s
File: main.py
Function: linearRegressionfit at line 35

Line #      Hits         Time  Per Hit   % Time  Line Contents
==============================================================
    35                                           @profile
    36                                           def linearRegressionfit(Xt,Yt,Xts,Yts):
    37         1         52.0     52.0      0.1      lr=LinearRegression()
    38         1      28942.0  28942.0     75.2      model=lr.fit(Xt,Yt)
    39         1       1347.0   1347.0      3.5      predict=lr.predict(Xts)
    40                                           
    41         1       4924.0   4924.0     12.8      print("train Accuracy",lr.score(Xt,Yt))
    42         1       3242.0   3242.0      8.4      print("test Accuracy",lr.score(Xts,Yts))

For Memory Profiling,

Run:

$ python -m memory_profiler main.py

Output

Filename: main.py

Line #    Mem usage    Increment   Line Contents
================================================
    35  125.992 MiB  125.992 MiB   @profile
    36                             def linearRegressionfit(Xt,Yt,Xts,Yts):
    37  125.992 MiB    0.000 MiB       lr=LinearRegression()
    38  130.547 MiB    4.555 MiB       model=lr.fit(Xt,Yt)
    39  130.547 MiB    0.000 MiB       predict=lr.predict(Xts)
    40                             
    41  130.547 MiB    0.000 MiB       print("train Accuracy",lr.score(Xt,Yt))
    42  130.547 MiB    0.000 MiB       print("test Accuracy",lr.score(Xts,Yts))

Also, the memory profiler results can also be plotted using matplotlib using

$ mprof run main.py
$ mprof plot

enter image description here Note: Tested on

line_profiler version == 3.0.2

memory_profiler version == 0.57.0

psutil version == 5.7.0


EDIT: The results from the profilers can be parsed using the TAMPPA package. Using it, we can get line-by-line desired plots as plot


I don't believe that there is a well-supported multi-platform library available. Remember that Python itself is written in C so any library is simply going to make a smart decision about which OS-specific code snippet to run, as you suggested above.


This script for CPU usage:

import os

def get_cpu_load():
    """ Returns a list CPU Loads"""
    result = []
    cmd = "WMIC CPU GET LoadPercentage "
    response = os.popen(cmd + ' 2>&1','r').read().strip().split("\r\n")
    for load in response[1:]:
       result.append(int(load))
    return result

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print get_cpu_load()

Use the psutil library. On Ubuntu 18.04, pip installed 5.5.0 (latest version) as of 1-30-2019. Older versions may behave somewhat differently. You can check your version of psutil by doing this in Python:

from __future__ import print_function  # for Python2
import psutil
print(psutil.__versi??on__)

To get some memory and CPU stats:

from __future__ import print_function
import psutil
print(psutil.cpu_percent())
print(psutil.virtual_memory())  # physical memory usage
print('memory % used:', psutil.virtual_memory()[2])

The virtual_memory (tuple) will have the percent memory used system-wide. This seemed to be overestimated by a few percent for me on Ubuntu 18.04.

You can also get the memory used by the current Python instance:

import os
import psutil
pid = os.getpid()
py = psutil.Process(pid)
memoryUse = py.memory_info()[0]/2.**30  # memory use in GB...I think
print('memory use:', memoryUse)

which gives the current memory use of your Python script.

There are some more in-depth examples on the pypi page for psutil.


Below codes, without external libraries worked for me. I tested at Python 2.7.9

CPU Usage

import os

    CPU_Pct=str(round(float(os.popen('''grep 'cpu ' /proc/stat | awk '{usage=($2+$4)*100/($2+$4+$5)} END {print usage }' ''').readline()),2))

    #print results
    print("CPU Usage = " + CPU_Pct)

And Ram Usage, Total, Used and Free

import os
mem=str(os.popen('free -t -m').readlines())
"""
Get a whole line of memory output, it will be something like below
['             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached\n', 
'Mem:           925        591        334         14         30        355\n', 
'-/+ buffers/cache:        205        719\n', 
'Swap:           99          0         99\n', 
'Total:        1025        591        434\n']
 So, we need total memory, usage and free memory.
 We should find the index of capital T which is unique at this string
"""
T_ind=mem.index('T')
"""
Than, we can recreate the string with this information. After T we have,
"Total:        " which has 14 characters, so we can start from index of T +14
and last 4 characters are also not necessary.
We can create a new sub-string using this information
"""
mem_G=mem[T_ind+14:-4]
"""
The result will be like
1025        603        422
we need to find first index of the first space, and we can start our substring
from from 0 to this index number, this will give us the string of total memory
"""
S1_ind=mem_G.index(' ')
mem_T=mem_G[0:S1_ind]
"""
Similarly we will create a new sub-string, which will start at the second value. 
The resulting string will be like
603        422
Again, we should find the index of first space and than the 
take the Used Memory and Free memory.
"""
mem_G1=mem_G[S1_ind+8:]
S2_ind=mem_G1.index(' ')
mem_U=mem_G1[0:S2_ind]

mem_F=mem_G1[S2_ind+8:]
print 'Summary = ' + mem_G
print 'Total Memory = ' + mem_T +' MB'
print 'Used Memory = ' + mem_U +' MB'
print 'Free Memory = ' + mem_F +' MB'

  • For CPU details use psutil library

    https://psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#cpu

  • For RAM Frequency (in MHz) use the built in Linux library dmidecode and manipulate the output a bit ;). this command needs root permission hence supply your password too. just copy the following commend replacing mypass with your password

import os

os.system("echo mypass | sudo -S dmidecode -t memory | grep 'Clock Speed' | cut -d ':' -f2")

------------------- Output ---------------------------
1600 MT/s
Unknown
1600 MT/s
Unknown 0

  • more specificly
    [i for i in os.popen("echo mypass | sudo -S dmidecode -t memory | grep 'Clock Speed' | cut -d ':' -f2").read().split(' ') if i.isdigit()]

-------------------------- output -------------------------
['1600', '1600']


"... current system status (current CPU, RAM, free disk space, etc.)" And "*nix and Windows platforms" can be a difficult combination to achieve.

The operating systems are fundamentally different in the way they manage these resources. Indeed, they differ in core concepts like defining what counts as system and what counts as application time.

"Free disk space"? What counts as "disk space?" All partitions of all devices? What about foreign partitions in a multi-boot environment?

I don't think there's a clear enough consensus between Windows and *nix that makes this possible. Indeed, there may not even be any consensus between the various operating systems called Windows. Is there a single Windows API that works for both XP and Vista?


Only for Linux: One-liner for the RAM usage with only stdlib dependency:

import os
tot_m, used_m, free_m = map(int, os.popen('free -t -m').readlines()[-1].split()[1:])

edit: specified solution OS dependency


I feel like these answers were written for Python 2, and in any case nobody's made mention of the standard resource package that's available for Python 3. It provides commands for obtaining the resource limits of a given process (the calling Python process by default). This isn't the same as getting the current usage of resources by the system as a whole, but it could solve some of the same problems like e.g. "I want to make sure I only use X much RAM with this script."


Based on the cpu usage code by @Hrabal, this is what I use:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

def get_cpu_usage():
    ''' Get CPU usage on Linux by reading /proc/stat '''

    sub = Popen(('grep', 'cpu', '/proc/stat'), stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    top_vals = [int(val) for val in sub.communicate()[0].split('\n')[0].split[1:5]]

    return (top_vals[0] + top_vals[2]) * 100. /(top_vals[0] + top_vals[2] + top_vals[3])

I don't believe that there is a well-supported multi-platform library available. Remember that Python itself is written in C so any library is simply going to make a smart decision about which OS-specific code snippet to run, as you suggested above.


You can use psutil or psmem with subprocess example code

import subprocess
cmd =   subprocess.Popen(['sudo','./ps_mem'],stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE) 
out,error = cmd.communicate() 
memory = out.splitlines()

Reference http://techarena51.com/index.php/how-to-install-python-3-and-flask-on-linux/

https://github.com/Leo-g/python-flask-cmd


This script for CPU usage:

import os

def get_cpu_load():
    """ Returns a list CPU Loads"""
    result = []
    cmd = "WMIC CPU GET LoadPercentage "
    response = os.popen(cmd + ' 2>&1','r').read().strip().split("\r\n")
    for load in response[1:]:
       result.append(int(load))
    return result

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print get_cpu_load()

"... current system status (current CPU, RAM, free disk space, etc.)" And "*nix and Windows platforms" can be a difficult combination to achieve.

The operating systems are fundamentally different in the way they manage these resources. Indeed, they differ in core concepts like defining what counts as system and what counts as application time.

"Free disk space"? What counts as "disk space?" All partitions of all devices? What about foreign partitions in a multi-boot environment?

I don't think there's a clear enough consensus between Windows and *nix that makes this possible. Indeed, there may not even be any consensus between the various operating systems called Windows. Is there a single Windows API that works for both XP and Vista?


Here's something I put together a while ago, it's windows only but may help you get part of what you need done.

Derived from: "for sys available mem" http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455130.aspx

"individual process information and python script examples" http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true

NOTE: the WMI interface/process is also available for performing similar tasks I'm not using it here because the current method covers my needs, but if someday it's needed to extend or improve this, then may want to investigate the WMI tools a vailable.

WMI for python:

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

The code:

'''
Monitor window processes

derived from:
>for sys available mem
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455130.aspx

> individual process information and python script examples
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true

NOTE: the WMI interface/process is also available for performing similar tasks
        I'm not using it here because the current method covers my needs, but if someday it's needed
        to extend or improve this module, then may want to investigate the WMI tools available.
        WMI for python:
        http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html
'''

__revision__ = 3

import win32com.client
from ctypes import *
from ctypes.wintypes import *
import pythoncom
import pywintypes
import datetime


class MEMORYSTATUS(Structure):
    _fields_ = [
                ('dwLength', DWORD),
                ('dwMemoryLoad', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalPhys', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailPhys', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalPageFile', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailPageFile', DWORD),
                ('dwTotalVirtual', DWORD),
                ('dwAvailVirtual', DWORD),
                ]


def winmem():
    x = MEMORYSTATUS() # create the structure
    windll.kernel32.GlobalMemoryStatus(byref(x)) # from cytypes.wintypes
    return x    


class process_stats:
    '''process_stats is able to provide counters of (all?) the items available in perfmon.
    Refer to the self.supported_types keys for the currently supported 'Performance Objects'

    To add logging support for other data you can derive the necessary data from perfmon:
    ---------
    perfmon can be run from windows 'run' menu by entering 'perfmon' and enter.
    Clicking on the '+' will open the 'add counters' menu,
    From the 'Add Counters' dialog, the 'Performance object' is the self.support_types key.
    --> Where spaces are removed and symbols are entered as text (Ex. # == Number, % == Percent)
    For the items you wish to log add the proper attribute name in the list in the self.supported_types dictionary,
    keyed by the 'Performance Object' name as mentioned above.
    ---------

    NOTE: The 'NETFramework_NETCLRMemory' key does not seem to log dotnet 2.0 properly.

    Initially the python implementation was derived from:
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx?mfr=true
    '''
    def __init__(self,process_name_list=[],perf_object_list=[],filter_list=[]):
        '''process_names_list == the list of all processes to log (if empty log all)
        perf_object_list == list of process counters to log
        filter_list == list of text to filter
        print_results == boolean, output to stdout
        '''
        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread

        self.process_name_list = process_name_list
        self.perf_object_list = perf_object_list
        self.filter_list = filter_list

        self.win32_perf_base = 'Win32_PerfFormattedData_'

        # Define new datatypes here!
        self.supported_types = {
                                    'NETFramework_NETCLRMemory':    [
                                                                        'Name',
                                                                        'NumberTotalCommittedBytes',
                                                                        'NumberTotalReservedBytes',
                                                                        'NumberInducedGC',    
                                                                        'NumberGen0Collections',
                                                                        'NumberGen1Collections',
                                                                        'NumberGen2Collections',
                                                                        'PromotedMemoryFromGen0',
                                                                        'PromotedMemoryFromGen1',
                                                                        'PercentTimeInGC',
                                                                        'LargeObjectHeapSize'
                                                                     ],

                                    'PerfProc_Process':              [
                                                                          'Name',
                                                                          'PrivateBytes',
                                                                          'ElapsedTime',
                                                                          'IDProcess',# pid
                                                                          'Caption',
                                                                          'CreatingProcessID',
                                                                          'Description',
                                                                          'IODataBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IODataOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOOtherBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOOtherOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOReadBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOReadOperationsPersec',
                                                                          'IOWriteBytesPersec',
                                                                          'IOWriteOperationsPersec'     
                                                                      ]
                                }

    def get_pid_stats(self, pid):
        this_proc_dict = {}

        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
        if not self.perf_object_list:
            perf_object_list = self.supported_types.keys()

        for counter_type in perf_object_list:
            strComputer = "."
            objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
            objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")

            query_str = '''Select * from %s%s''' % (self.win32_perf_base,counter_type)
            colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery(query_str) # "Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")# changed from Win32_Thread        

            if len(colItems) > 0:        
                for objItem in colItems:
                    if hasattr(objItem, 'IDProcess') and pid == objItem.IDProcess:

                            for attribute in self.supported_types[counter_type]:
                                eval_str = 'objItem.%s' % (attribute)
                                this_proc_dict[attribute] = eval(eval_str)

                            this_proc_dict['TimeStamp'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.') + str(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)[:3]
                            break

        return this_proc_dict      


    def get_stats(self):
        '''
        Show process stats for all processes in given list, if none given return all processes   
        If filter list is defined return only the items that match or contained in the list
        Returns a list of result dictionaries
        '''    
        pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
        proc_results_list = []
        if not self.perf_object_list:
            perf_object_list = self.supported_types.keys()

        for counter_type in perf_object_list:
            strComputer = "."
            objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
            objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")

            query_str = '''Select * from %s%s''' % (self.win32_perf_base,counter_type)
            colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery(query_str) # "Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")# changed from Win32_Thread

            try:  
                if len(colItems) > 0:
                    for objItem in colItems:
                        found_flag = False
                        this_proc_dict = {}

                        if not self.process_name_list:
                            found_flag = True
                        else:
                            # Check if process name is in the process name list, allow print if it is
                            for proc_name in self.process_name_list:
                                obj_name = objItem.Name
                                if proc_name.lower() in obj_name.lower(): # will log if contains name
                                    found_flag = True
                                    break

                        if found_flag:
                            for attribute in self.supported_types[counter_type]:
                                eval_str = 'objItem.%s' % (attribute)
                                this_proc_dict[attribute] = eval(eval_str)

                            this_proc_dict['TimeStamp'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.') + str(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)[:3]
                            proc_results_list.append(this_proc_dict)

            except pywintypes.com_error, err_msg:
                # Ignore and continue (proc_mem_logger calls this function once per second)
                continue
        return proc_results_list     


def get_sys_stats():
    ''' Returns a dictionary of the system stats'''
    pythoncom.CoInitialize() # Needed when run by the same process in a thread
    x = winmem()

    sys_dict = { 
                    'dwAvailPhys': x.dwAvailPhys,
                    'dwAvailVirtual':x.dwAvailVirtual
                }
    return sys_dict


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # This area used for testing only
    sys_dict = get_sys_stats()

    stats_processor = process_stats(process_name_list=['process2watch'],perf_object_list=[],filter_list=[])
    proc_results = stats_processor.get_stats()

    for result_dict in proc_results:
        print result_dict

    import os
    this_pid = os.getpid()
    this_proc_results = stats_processor.get_pid_stats(this_pid)

    print 'this proc results:'
    print this_proc_results

http://monkut.webfactional.com/blog/archive/2009/1/21/windows-process-memory-logging-python


This aggregate all the goodies: psutil + os to get Unix & Windows compatibility: That allows us to get:

  1. CPU
  2. memory
  3. disk

code:

import os
import psutil  # need: pip install psutil

In [32]: psutil.virtual_memory()
Out[32]: svmem(total=6247907328, available=2502328320, percent=59.9, used=3327135744, free=167067648, active=3671199744, inactive=1662668800,     buffers=844783616, cached=1908920320, shared=123912192, slab=613048320)

In [33]: psutil.virtual_memory().percent
Out[33]: 60.0

In [34]: psutil.cpu_percent()
Out[34]: 5.5

In [35]: os.sep
Out[35]: '/'

In [36]: psutil.disk_usage(os.sep)
Out[36]: sdiskusage(total=50190790656, used=41343860736, free=6467502080, percent=86.5)

In [37]: psutil.disk_usage(os.sep).percent
Out[37]: 86.5

Based on the cpu usage code by @Hrabal, this is what I use:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

def get_cpu_usage():
    ''' Get CPU usage on Linux by reading /proc/stat '''

    sub = Popen(('grep', 'cpu', '/proc/stat'), stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    top_vals = [int(val) for val in sub.communicate()[0].split('\n')[0].split[1:5]]

    return (top_vals[0] + top_vals[2]) * 100. /(top_vals[0] + top_vals[2] + top_vals[3])

You can use psutil or psmem with subprocess example code

import subprocess
cmd =   subprocess.Popen(['sudo','./ps_mem'],stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE) 
out,error = cmd.communicate() 
memory = out.splitlines()

Reference http://techarena51.com/index.php/how-to-install-python-3-and-flask-on-linux/

https://github.com/Leo-g/python-flask-cmd


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