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psutil

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psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, users) in a portable way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by command line tools such as: ps, top, df...

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  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • IT flagItaly
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
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  • Developed by

    IT flagGiampaolo Rodola
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about psutil, and it has gotten 12 likes

psutil was added to AlternativeTo by kafene on Oct 9, 2012 and this page was last updated Sep 9, 2022.

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AllanLRH
Nov 8, 2017
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Notice that it's a programming library for Python, and that it doesn't provide a user interface by iteself. Ports exist for other programming languages (links on the project webpage): Go, C, Node, Rust, Ruby and Nim (as of 8th November 2017).

The library have some permission issues on MacOS.

What is psutil?

psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, users) in a portable way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by command line tools such as: ps, top, df, kill, free, lsof, netstat, ifconfig, nice, ionice, iostat, iotop, uptime, pidof, tty, who, taskset, and pmap.