New submission from sam-s: `resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss` returns the peak memory usage, in *bytes* on BSD (including Mac OS X) and in *kilobytes* on Linux.
This means that to get a cross-platform value, the user has to check `sys.platform`, which is fairly inconvenient. It would seem like a good idea to return a platform-independent value (e.g., multiply the Linux return value by 1000 - or is it 1024?!) Please see also * https://bugs.python.org/issue20468 * https://stackoverflow.com/a/7669482/850781 Thank you! ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 294768 nosy: sam-s priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: getrusage returns platform-dependent value type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30513> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
