psutil – process and system utilities for Python

psutil is a cross-platform library for retrieving information about running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, sensors) in Python. It is useful mainly for system monitoring, profiling, limiting process resources, and managing running processes. It implements many functionalities offered by UNIX command line tool such as ps, top, free, iotop, netstat, ifconfig, lsof and others (see shell equivalents). psutil supports the following platforms: Linux […]