[Baypiggies] Watching how much memory my Python program is taking up

[Jean Brouwers]

On Linux, this recipe will work

<http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286222-memory-usage/>

/Jean


On Feb 19, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:

> This could be a good shot, but I'm not sure how to use it to get the current amount of memory used by the Python program. If I do a subprocess.getoutput("cat /proc/sefl/status"), is shows the amount of memory used for "cat", not for the enclosing program.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman
> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:27 AM, William Deegan <bdbaddog at gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> If you only care about linux you can parse /proc/self/status
> 
> -Bill
> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings. I have a Python 3.4 program that will keep eating up memory until I tell it to stop; in short, it uses asyncio to launch as many coroutines as the machine can handle. I want to determine approximately how much memory I am using at this moment so I know when to stop consuming more and having the box run out of memory (I already have swapping turned off).
> 
> Are there well-known patterns for this? I looked in a bunch of places and found nothing, which kinda surprised me. I recognize that it is unlikely that there is a cross-OS method for this, but I would be happy with just something that says "I'm now taking up a total of 3.7 gig" and I can do the "how much is too much" calculation by hand.
> 
> Pointers are appreciated.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman
> 
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