psutil
psutil (process and system utilities) is a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, sensors)
in Python. It is useful mainly for system monitoring, profiling and limiting process resources and management of running processes. It implements many functionalities offered by UNIX command line tools such as: ps, top, lsof, netstat, ifconfig, who, df, kill, free, nice, ionice, iostat, iotop, uptime, pidof, tty, taskset, pmap. psutil currently supports the following platforms:
Example usages
CPU
Copy import psutil
psutil . cpu_times ()
scputimes(user=3961.46, nice=169.729, system=2150.659, idle=16900.540, iowait=629.59, irq=0.0, softirq=19.42, steal=0.0, guest=0, nice=0.0)
Copy for x in range(3):
psutil.cpu_percent(interval=1)
4.0 5.9 3.8
Copy for x in range(3):
psutil.cpu_percent(interval=1, percpu=True)
[4.0, 6.9, 3.7, 9.2] [7.0, 8.5, 2.4, 2.1] [1.2, 9.0, 9.9, 7.2]
Copy for x in range(3):
psutil.cpu_times_percent(interval=1, percpu=False)
scputimes(user=1.5, nice=0.0, system=0.5, idle=96.5, iowait=1.5, irq=0.0, softirq=0.0, steal=0.0, guest=0.0, guest_nice=0.0) scputimes(user=1.0, nice=0.0, system=0.0, idle=99.0, iowait=0.0, irq=0.0, softirq=0.0, steal=0.0, guest=0.0, guest_nice=0.0) scputimes(user=2.0, nice=0.0, system=0.0, idle=98.0, iowait=0.0, irq=0.0, softirq=0.0, steal=0.0, guest=0.0, guest_nice=0.0)
4
Copy psutil.cpu_count(logical=False)
2
scpustats(ctx_switches=20455687, interrupts=6598984, soft_interrupts=2134212, syscalls=0)
scpufreq(current=931.42925, min=800.0, max=3500.0)
Memory
Copy import psutil
psutil.virtual_memory()
Copy svmem(total=10367352832, available=6472179712, percent=37.6, used=8186245120, free=2181107712, active=4748992512, inactive=2758115328, buffers=790724608,
cached=3500347392, shared=787554304)
sswap(total=2097147904, used=296128512, free=1801019392, percent=14.1, sin=304193536, sout=677842944)
Disks
Copy import psutil
psutil.disk_partitions()
[sdiskpart(device='/dev/sda1', mountpoint='/', fstype='ext4', opts='rw,nosuid'), sdiskpart(device='/dev/sda2', mountpoint='/home', fstype='ext, opts='rw')]
Copy psutil.disk_usage('/')
sdiskusage(total=21378641920, used=4809781248, free=15482871808, percent=22.5)
Copy psutil . disk_io_counters (perdisk = False )
sdiskio(read_count=719566, write_count=1082197, read_bytes=18626220032, write_bytes=24081764352, read_time=5023392, write_time=63199568, read_merged_count=619166, write_merged_count=812396, busy_time=4523412)
Network
Copy import psutil
psutil . net_io_counters (pernic = True )
{'eth0': netio(bytes_sent=485291293, bytes_recv=6004858642, packets_sent=3251564, packets_recv=4787798, errin=0, errout=0, dropin=0, dropout=0), 'lo': netio(bytes_sent=2838627, bytes_recv=2838627, packets_sent=30567, packets_recv=30567, errin=0, errout=0, dropin=0, dropout=0)}
Copy psutil . net_connections ()
Copy [sconn(fd=115, family=<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, type=<SocketType.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, laddr=addr(ip='10.0.0.1', port=48776), raddr=addr(ip='93.186.135.91', port=80), status='ESTABLISHED', pid=1254),
sconn(fd=117, family=<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, type=<SocketType.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, laddr=addr(ip='10.0.0.1', port=43761), raddr=addr(ip='72.14.234.100', port=80), status='CLOSING', pid=2987),
sconn(fd=-1, family=<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, type=<SocketType.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, laddr=addr(ip='10.0.0.1', port=60759), raddr=addr(ip='72.14.234.104', port=80), status='ESTABLISHED', pid=None),
sconn(fd=-1, family=<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, type=<SocketType.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, laddr=addr(ip='10.0.0.1', port=51314), raddr=addr(ip='72.14.234.83', port=443), status='SYN_SENT', pid=None)
...]
Copy psutil . net_if_addrs ()
Copy {'lo': [snic(family=<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, address='127.0.0.1', netmask='255.0.0.0', broadcast='127.0.0.1', ptp=None),
snic(family=<AddressFamily.AF_INET6: 10>, address='::1', netmask='ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff', broadcast=None, ptp=None),
snic(family=<AddressFamily.AF_LINK: 17>, address='00:00:00:00:00:00', netmask=None, broadcast='00:00:00:00:00:00', ptp=None)],
'wlan0': [snic(family=<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, address='192.168.1.3', netmask='255.255.255.0', broadcast='192.168.1.255', ptp=None),
snic(family=<AddressFamily.AF_INET6: 10>, address='fe80::c685:8ff:fe45:641%wlan0', netmask='ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::', broadcast=None, ptp=None),
snic(family=<AddressFamily.AF_LINK: 17>, address='c4:85:08:45:06:41', netmask=None, broadcast='ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff', ptp=None)]}
Copy psutil . net_if_stats ()
Copy {'eth0': snicstats(isup=True, duplex=<NicDuplex.NIC_DUPLEX_FULL: 2>, speed=100, mtu=1500),
'lo': snicstats(isup=True, duplex=<NicDuplex.NIC_DUPLEX_UNKNOWN: 0>, speed=0, mtu=65536)}
Sensors
Copy import psutil
psutil . sensors_temperatures ()
Copy {'acpitz': [shwtemp(label='', current=47.0, high=103.0, critical=103.0)],
'asus': [shwtemp(label='', current=47.0, high=None, critical=None)],
'coretemp': [shwtemp(label='Physical id 0', current=52.0, high=100.0, critical=100.0),
shwtemp(label='Core 0', current=45.0, high=100.0, critical=100.0),
shwtemp(label='Core 1', current=52.0, high=100.0, critical=100.0),
shwtemp(label='Core 2', current=45.0, high=100.0, critical=100.0),
shwtemp(label='Core 3', current=47.0, high=100.0, critical=100.0)]}
Copy psutil . sensors_fans ()
Copy {'asus': [sfan(label='cpu_fan', current=3200)]}
Copy psutil . sensors_battery ()
sbattery(percent=93, secsleft=16628, power_plugged=False)
Other system info
Copy import psutil
psutil . users ()
Copy [suser(name='giampaolo', terminal='pts/2', host='localhost', started=1340737536.0, pid=1352),
suser(name='giampaolo', terminal='pts/3', host='localhost', started=1340737792.0, pid=1788)]
psutil.boot_time() 1365519115.0
Process management
Copy import psutil
psutil . pids ()
Copy [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 46, 48, 50, 51, 178, 182, 222, 223, 224, 268, 1215, 1216, 1220, 1221, 1243, 1244,
1301, 1601, 2237, 2355, 2637, 2774, 3932, 4176, 4177, 4185, 4187, 4189, 4225, 4243, 4245, 4263, 4282,
4306, 4311, 4312, 4313, 4314, 4337, 4339, 4357, 4358, 4363, 4383, 4395, 4408, 4433, 4443, 4445, 4446,
5167, 5234, 5235, 5252, 5318, 5424, 5644, 6987, 7054, 7055, 7071]
Copy p = psutil . Process ( 7055 )
p . name ()
'python'
'/usr/bin/python'
'/home/giampaolo'
['/usr/bin/python', 'main.py']
7055
7054
Copy [<psutil.Process(pid=8031, name='python') at 14020832451977>,
<psutil.Process(pid=8044, name='python') at 19229444921932>]
'running'
'giampaolo'
1267551141.5019531
'/dev/pts/0'
puids(real=1000, effective=1000, saved=1000)
pgids(real=1000, effective=1000, saved=1000)
pcputimes(user=1.02, system=0.31, children_user=0.32, children_system=0.1)
Copy p . cpu_percent (interval = 1.0 )
12.1
[0, 1, 2, 3]
Copy p . cpu_affinity ([ 0 , 1 ]) # set
p . cpu_num ()
1
pmem(rss=10915840, vms=67608576, shared=3313664, text=2310144, lib=0, data=7262208, dirty=0)
Copy p.memory_full_info() # "real" USS memory usage (Linux, OSX, Win only)
pfullmem(rss=10199040, vms=52133888, shared=3887104, text=2867200, lib=0, data=5967872, dirty=0, uss=6545408, pss=6872064, swap=0)
0.7823
Copy [pmmap_grouped(path='/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/libutil-2.15.so', rss=32768, size=2125824, pss=32768, shared_clean=0, shared_dirty=0, private_clean=20480, private_dirty=12288, referenced=32768, anonymous=12288, swap=0),
pmmap_grouped(path='/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so', rss=3821568, size=3842048, pss=3821568, shared_clean=0, shared_dirty=0, private_clean=0, private_dirty=3821568, referenced=3575808, anonymous=3821568, swap=0),
pmmap_grouped(path='/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.0.1', rss=34124, rss=32768, size=2134016, pss=15360, shared_clean=24576, shared_dirty=0, private_clean=0, private_dirty=8192, referenced=24576, anonymous=8192, swap=0),
pmmap_grouped(path='[heap]', rss=32768, size=139264, pss=32768, shared_clean=0, shared_dirty=0, private_clean=0, private_dirty=32768, referenced=32768, anonymous=32768, swap=0),
pmmap_grouped(path='[stack]', rss=2465792, size=2494464, pss=2465792, shared_clean=0, shared_dirty=0, private_clean=0, private_dirty=2465792, referenced=2277376, anonymous=2465792, swap=0),
...]
pio(read_count=478001, write_count=59371, read_bytes=700416, write_bytes=69632, read_chars=456232, write_chars=517543)
[popenfile(path='/home/giampaolo/svn/psutil/setup.py', fd=3, position=0, mode='r', flags=32768), popenfile(path='/var/log/monitd', fd=4, position=235542, mode='a', flags=33793)]
[pconn(fd=115, family=, type=, laddr=addr(ip='10.0.0.1', port=48776), raddr=addr(ip='93.186.135.91', port=80), status='ESTABLISHED'), pconn(fd=117, family=, type=, laddr=addr(ip='10.0.0.1', port=43761), raddr=addr(ip='72.14.234.100', port=80), status='CLOSING'), pconn(fd=119, family=, type=, laddr=addr(ip='10.0.0.1', port=60759), raddr=addr(ip='72.14.234.104', port=80), status='ESTABLISHED'), pconn(fd=123, family=, type=, laddr=addr(ip='10.0.0.1', port=51314), raddr=addr(ip='72.14.234.83', port=443), status='SYN_SENT')]
4
8
[pthread(id=5234, user_time=22.5, system_time=9.2891), pthread(id=5235, user_time=0.0, system_time=0.0), pthread(id=5236, user_time=0.0, system_time=0.0), pthread(id=5237, user_time=0.0707, system_time=1.1)]
pctxsw(voluntary=78, involuntary=19)
0
Copy p.nice(10) # set
p.ionice(psutil.IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE) # IO priority (Win and Linux only)
p.ionice()
Copy pionice(ioclass=<IOPriority.IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE: 3>, value=0)
Copy p.rlimit(psutil.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (5, 5)) # set resource limits (Linux only)
p.rlimit(psutil.RLIMIT_NOFILE)
(5, 5)
{'LC_PAPER': 'it_IT.UTF-8', 'SHELL': '/bin/bash', 'GREP_OPTIONS': '--color=auto', 'XDG_CONFIG_DIRS': '/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg', 'COLORTERM': 'gnome-terminal', ...}
{'status': 'running', 'num_ctx_switches': pctxsw(voluntary=63, involuntary=1), 'pid': 5457, ...}
True
Copy p.suspend()
p.resume()
p.terminate()
p.wait(timeout=3)
0
Copy USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 24584 2240 Jun17 00:00 init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 Jun17 00:00 kthreadd
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 Jun17 00:05 ksoftirqd/0
...
giampaolo 31475 0.0 0.0 20760 3024 /dev/pts/0 Jun19 00:00 python2.4
giampaolo 31721 0.0 2.2 773060 181896 00:04 10:30 chrome
root 31763 0.0 0.0 0 0 00:05 00:00 kworker/0:1
Further process APIs
Copy import psutil
for proc in psutil.process_iter(attrs=['pid', 'name']):
print(proc.info)
{'pid': 1, 'name': 'systemd'} {'pid': 2, 'name': 'kthreadd'} {'pid': 3, 'name': 'ksoftirqd/0'} ...
True
Copy def on_terminate(proc):
... print("process {} terminated".format(proc))
waits for multiple processes to terminate
gone, alive = psutil.wait_procs(procs_list, timeout=3, callback=on_terminate)
Popen wrapper:
Copy import psutil
from subprocess import PIPE
p = psutil.Popen(["/usr/bin/python", "-c", "print('hello')"], stdout=PIPE)
p.name()
'python'
'giampaolo'
('hello\n', None)
0
Windows services
Copy list(psutil.win_service_iter())
Copy [<WindowsService(name='AeLookupSvc', display_name='Application Experience') at 38850096>,
<WindowsService(name='ALG', display_name='Application Layer Gateway Service') at 38850128>,
<WindowsService(name='APNMCP', display_name='Ask Update Service') at 38850160>,
<WindowsService(name='AppIDSvc', display_name='Application Identity') at 38850192>,...]
Copy s = psutil.win_service_get('alg')
s.as_dict()
Copy {'binpath': 'C:\\Windows\\System32\\alg.exe',
'description': 'Provides support for 3rd party protocol plug-ins for Internet Connection Sharing',
'display_name': 'Application Layer Gateway Service',
'name': 'alg',
'pid': None,
'start_type': 'manual',
'status': 'stopped',
'username': 'NT AUTHORITY\\LocalService'}
Other samples See doc recipes.