getting cross platform system information

[Simon Bunker]

by RAM usage I mean total free memory - eg what free gives you under Linux.
Unix/Linux isn't really the problem, but Windows is as I don't know any
win32 programming.

Simon
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"Cameron Laird" <claird at lairds.com> wrote in message
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> In article <slrnb1c0m6.3kp.gerhard.haering at lilith.my-fqdn.de>,
> Gerhard Häring  <gerhard.haering at gmx.de> wrote:
> >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.
> .
> .
> .
> We've covered these before in c.l.p; valuable information
> is in the archives.
>
> Most troublesome is "memory usage", which is not a portable
> concept at all, let alone one implemented with portable
> access.  In fact, what *do* you mean by "memory usage"?  Is
> that per process?  Or are you asking how much RAM the host
> recognizes?  Or ...?
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