However, importing the windows_memory_usage function and calling it doesn't
crash...mine returns 73

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Jed Ludlow <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Matt Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Jed wins the prize,
>>
>> It looks like this function may not be any good on 64 bit systems (in
>> utils\system.py)
>>
>> def windows_memory_usage():
>>     """Return physical memory usage (float)
>>     Works on Windows platforms only"""
>>     from ctypes import windll
>>     from ctypes.wintypes import byref, Structure, DWORD
>>     class MemoryStatus(Structure):
>>         _fields_ = [('dwLength', DWORD), ('dwMemoryLoad', DWORD),
>>                     ('dwTotalPhys', DWORD), ('dwAvailPhys', DWORD),
>>                     ('dwTotalPageFile', DWORD), ('dwAvailPageFile',
>> DWORD),
>>                     ('dwTotalVirtual', DWORD), ('dwAvailVirtual', DWORD),]
>>     memorystatus = MemoryStatus()
>>     windll.kernel32.GlobalMemoryStatus(byref(memorystatus))
>>     return float(memorystatus.dwMemoryLoad)
>>
>>
> Yes, running system.py as a script produces the same interpreter crash.
> Some days ctypes is your friend. Some days it isn't :).
>
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