I have been using an approach like Gary's below, but I just noticed that it can't calculate the memory correctly once the resident size gets over about 4G. The 'top' command seems correct but not 'ps'.
On Apr 15, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Gary Bernhardt wrote: > On 4/15/08, Konrad Hinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am trying to obtain the amount of memory that my Python process >> uses from inside the Python program using resource.getrusage(). >> While >> this works fine under Linux, on the Mac I always get 0 for the >> memory >> usage (the time information seems credible though). >> >> Does anyone have another idea for monitoring memory usage on the >> Mac? > > I needed this as well but didn't find a clean way to do it. > Eventually I gave up and shelled out to "ps" with something like this: > > cmd = 'ps %i -o rss' % pid > pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, > shell=True).stdout > mem_usage = int(pipe.readlines()[1]) > > -- > Gary > http://blog.extracheese.org > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
