Log Memory Usage

[Will Maier]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 04:35:56AM -0500, Will Maier wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:52:36AM +0100, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
> > I have a scheduled event which occurs every minute, i just need a
> > code solution to give me the systems current memory consumptions
> > details, is there perhaps something in the os module?
> 
> I don't know of anything in the standard library that does this sort
> of thing. Instead, you'll probably need to rely on your system's
> tools. sysstat is available on Linux and provides the sar(1) command
> for examining logs of various system attributes. The tool to use
> depends on the system you're running.

The other obvious approach would be to profile[0] your Python
application.

[0] http://docs.python.org/lib/profile.html

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