Hello all, I'm glad to announce the release of psutil 5.0.0: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil This release introduces important speedups making psutil from 2x to 6x faster depending on what platform you're on. A full blog post can be found here: http://grodola.blogspot.com/2016/11/psutil-500-is-around-twice-as-fast.html About ===== psutil (process and system utilities) is a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network) in Python. It is useful mainly for system monitoring, profiling and limiting process resources and management of running processes. It implements many functionalities offered by command line tools such as: ps, top, lsof, netstat, ifconfig, who, df, kill, free, nice, ionice, iostat, iotop, uptime, pidof, tty, taskset, pmap. It currently supports Linux, Windows, OSX, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, with Python versions from 2.6 to 3.5 (users of Python 2.4 and 2.5 may use 2.1.3 version). PyPy is also known to work. What's new ========== *2016-11-06* **Enhncements** - #799: new Process.oneshot() context manager making Process methods around +2x faster in general and from +2x to +6x faster on Windows. - #943: better error message in case of version conflict on import. **Bug fixes** - #932: [NetBSD] net_connections() and Process.connections() may fail without raising an exception. - #933: [Windows] memory leak in cpu_stats() and WindowsService.description(). Links ===== - Home page: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil - Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psutil - Documentation: http://pythonhosted.org/psutil - What's new: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/master/HISTORY.rst -- Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com