getting cross platform system information

[Gerhard Häring]

Simon Bunker wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get processor load, RAM usage and disk usage on
> linux/unix and Windows?

I'll answer for Unix:

processor load =>       uptime
disk usage =>           df

RAM usage: I don't believe you can do this portably on Unix. On Linux,
you can evaluate the output of 'free' or read /proc/meminfo directly
(with commands.getoutput or os.popen).

For Windows, you'll probably want to download the win32 extensions and
look what goodies there are in the win32api module.

Gerhard
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