How to get memory and CPU status of a particular process

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Paul Rudin <paul.nospam at rudin.co.uk> wrote:
> Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> writes:
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:18 AM, R. P. Janaka <rpjanaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to get system memory consumption and CPU consumption in a
>>>> platform independent way, using python...?
>>>>
>>>> Basically my requirement is, get the memory status and CPU status of a
>>>> particular process. If there is a way to get memory info and CPU info by
>>>> just giving the process ID, that is exactly what I need to do :)
>>>> Is this possible with python..?
>>
>> Given Turing-completeness, one should more precisely ask whether there
>> is already a library for doing something in Python rather than whether
>> something is possible with Python.
>
> Turing-completeness is irrelevant to questions like getting memory and
> CPU info for a process. These are not issues of computability...

True, but given that it is possible to access most *nix APIs from
Python and win32all provides what I understand to be extensive access
to the Win32 API from Python, cross-platform coding is almost always
possible in Python. You might have to manually deal with each case
yourself though. (More technically, I suppose that's being
multi-platform with relatively easy DIY cross-platform).

Cheers,
Chris
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