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Hands on the Resource Module in Python

Tips and Traps

This module provides basic mechanisms for measuring and controlling system resources utilized by a process and its subprocesses. It cannot be used to check resource usage of other processes.

In [1]:
import resource

usage = resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF)
usage
Out[1]:
resource.struct_rusage(ru_utime=1.233378, ru_stime=0.28574299999999997, ru_maxrss=87670784, ru_ixrss=0, ru_idrss=0, ru_isrss=0, ru_minflt=39163, ru_majflt=0, ru_nswap=0, ru_inblock=0, ru_oublock=0, ru_msgsnd=85, ru_msgrcv=73, ru_nsignals=0, ru_nvcsw=17, ru_nivcsw=6092)
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"{:,}".format(usage.ru_maxrss)
Out[2]:
'87,670,784'
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