[Baypiggies] Watching how much memory my Python program is taking up

[Minesh Patel]

Along the same lines as Bill mentioned:

proc_data = = open('/proc/%s/status' % os.getpid()).read()

should work

Cheers,
Minesh

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This could be a good shot, but I'm not sure how to use it to get the
> current amount of memory used by the Python program. If I do a
> subprocess.getoutput("cat /proc/sefl/status"), is shows the amount of
> memory used for "cat", not for the enclosing program.
>
> --Paul Hoffman
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:27 AM, William Deegan <bdbaddog at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> If you only care about linux you can parse /proc/self/status
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings. I have a Python 3.4 program that will keep eating up memory
>>> until I tell it to stop; in short, it uses asyncio to launch as many
>>> coroutines as the machine can handle. I want to determine approximately how
>>> much memory I am using at this moment so I know when to stop consuming more
>>> and having the box run out of memory (I already have swapping turned off).
>>>
>>> Are there well-known patterns for this? I looked in a bunch of places
>>> and found nothing, which kinda surprised me. I recognize that it is
>>> unlikely that there is a cross-OS method for this, but I would be happy
>>> with just something that says "I'm now taking up a total of 3.7 gig" and I
>>> can do the "how much is too much" calculation by hand.
>>>
>>> Pointers are appreciated.
>>>
>>> --Paul Hoffman
>>>
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-- 
Thanks,
--Minesh
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