How to get Windows physical RAM using python?

[Mark]

Thanks.

 

[Mark]

OK, How to check the amount of Windows physical RAM using python?

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

OK, How to check the amount of Windows physical RAM using python?

You should call the GlobalMemoryStatus(Ex) function. To my knowledge,
there is no Python wrapper for it, yet, so you would need to write one.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Dan Bishop]

OK, How to check the amount of Windows physical RAM using python?

The easiest way is to parse the output from $WINDIR/system32/mem.exe .

memTotals = os.popen('mem | find "total"').readlines()
conventionalMemory = int(memTotals[0].split()[0])
extendedMemory = int(memTotals[1].split()[0])

 

[Gisle Vanem]

The easiest way is to parse the output from $WINDIR/system32/mem.exe .

memTotals = os.popen('mem | find "total"').readlines()
conventionalMemory = int(memTotals[0].split()[0])
extendedMemory = int(memTotals[1].split()[0])

Duh! That program reports the memory available to 16-bit
programs.

--gv

 

[Thomas Heller]

You should call the GlobalMemoryStatus(Ex) function. To my knowledge,
there is no Python wrapper for it, yet, so you would need to write one.

Here's a ctypes wrapper for the GlobalMemoryStatus function. If you have
more than 2GB of ram, you should use GlobalMemoryStatusEx instead:

Python 2.3 (#46, Jul 29 2003, 18:54:32) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information..... _fields_ = [("dwLength", DWORD),
.... ("dwMemoryLength", DWORD),
.... ("dwTotalPhys", SIZE_T),
.... ("dwAvailPhys", SIZE_T),
.... ("dwTotalPageFile", SIZE_T),
.... ("dwAvailPageFile", SIZE_T),
.... ("dwTotalVirtual", SIZE_T),
.... ("dwAvailVirtualPhys", SIZE_T)]
.... def show(self):
.... for field_name, field_type in self._fields_:
.... print field_name, getattr(self, field_name)
....dwLength 32
dwMemoryLength 47
dwTotalPhys 535609344
dwAvailPhys 281993216
dwTotalPageFile 907055104
dwAvailPageFile 720285696
dwTotalVirtual 2147352576
dwAvailVirtualPhys 2117312512
Thomas

 

[Seo Sanghyeon]

OK, How to check the amount of Windows physical RAM using python?

You should call the GlobalMemoryStatus(Ex) function. To my knowledge,
there is no Python wrapper for it, yet, so you would need to write one.

So let's write one in Python in a minute!

---- winmem.py
from ctypes import *
from ctypes.wintypes import *

class MEMORYSTATUS(Structure):
_fields_ = [
('dwLength', DWORD),
('dwMemoryLoad', DWORD),
('dwTotalPhys', DWORD),
('dwAvailPhys', DWORD),
('dwTotalPageFile', DWORD),
('dwAvailPageFile', DWORD),
('dwTotalVirtual', DWORD),
('dwAvailVirtual', DWORD),
]

def winmem():
x = MEMORYSTATUS()
windll.kernel32.GlobalMemoryStatus(byref(x))
return x

---- in your code

Hail to ctypes!

If you have never heard of ctypes, visit
http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/ and try it. You
will love it.

Seo Sanghyeon

 

[Tim Golden]

"Easy" way to get to physical RAM on Windows is via WMI objects.

And here's how you'd do it in Python:

1) Get WMI module from http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/wmi.html

2) Do something like this:

<code>
import wmi

computer = wmi.WMI ()
for i in computer.Win32_ComputerSystem ():
print i.Caption, "has", i.TotalPhysicalMemory, "bytes of memory"
</code>

Obviously you can fiddle around with Megabytes and Gigabytes and so on
if you need to. The loop is a slight hack: you obviously only have one
computer system, but this interface to WMI always returns a list
(albeit of one value).

HTH
TJG

 

[Bengt Richter]

You should call the GlobalMemoryStatus(Ex) function. To my knowledge,
there is no Python wrapper for it, yet, so you would need to write one.

Regards,
Martin

====< memorystatus.c >=============================================
/*
** memorystatus.c
** Version 0.01 20030731 10:45:12 Bengt Richter (e-mail address removed)
**
*/

#include "Python.h"
#include <windows.h>

static char doc_memstat[] =
"Returns list of 7 integers:\n"
" [0]: percent of memory in use\n"
" [1]: bytes of physical memory\n"
" [2]: free physical memory bytes\n"
" [3]: bytes of paging file\n"
" [4]: free bytes of paging file\n"
" [5]: user bytes of address space\n"
" [6]: free user bytes\n";

static PyObject *
memorystatus_memstat(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
PyObject *rv;
MEMORYSTATUS ms;
GlobalMemoryStatus( &ms );

if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "")) /* No arguments */
return NULL;
rv = Py_BuildValue("[i,i,i,i,i,i,i]",
ms.dwMemoryLoad, // percent of memory in use
ms.dwTotalPhys, // bytes of physical memory
ms.dwAvailPhys, // free physical memory bytes
ms.dwTotalPageFile, // bytes of paging file
ms.dwAvailPageFile, // free bytes of paging file
ms.dwTotalVirtual, // user bytes of address space
ms.dwAvailVirtual // free user bytes
);
return rv;
}

/* List of functions defined in the module */
static struct PyMethodDef memorystatus_module_methods[] = {
{"memstat", memorystatus_memstat, METH_VARARGS, doc_memstat},
{NULL, NULL} /* sentinel */
};


/* Initialization function for the module (*must* be called initmemorystatus) */
static char doc_memorystatus[] = "Get win32 memory status numbers (see memstat method)";

DL_EXPORT(void)
initmemorystatus(void)
{
PyObject *m, *d, *x;

/* Create the module and add the functions */
m = Py_InitModule("memorystatus", memorystatus_module_methods);
d = PyModule_GetDict(m);
x = PyString_FromString(doc_memorystatus);
PyDict_SetItemString(d, "__doc__", x);
Py_XDECREF(x);
}
===================================================================

You may find a little .cmd file like this (tailored to your system) handy:

[10:55] C:\pywk\ut\memorystatus>type \util\mkpydll.cmd
@cl -LD -nologo -Id:\python22\include %1.c -link -LIBPATH:\python22\libs -export:init%1

[10:56] C:\pywk\ut\memorystatus>mkpydll memorystatus
memorystatus.c
Creating library memorystatus.lib and object memorystatus.exp

[10:56] C:\pywk\ut\memorystatus>python

(I'll indent this one space to avoid spurious quote highlights)

Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Help on module memorystatus:

NAME
memorystatus - Get win32 memory status numbers (see memstat method)

FILE
c:\pywk\ut\memorystatus\memorystatus.dll

FUNCTIONS
memstat(...)
Returns list of 7 integers:
[0]: percent of memory in use
[1]: bytes of physical memory
[2]: free physical memory bytes
[3]: bytes of paging file
[4]: free bytes of paging file
[5]: user bytes of address space
[6]: free user bytes

DATA
__file__ = 'memorystatus.dll'
__name__ = 'memorystatus'

[0, 334929920, 271536128, 942825472, 861339648, 2147352576, 2129780736]

Warning: Just now did this. Not tested beyond what you see!!

Regards,
Bengt Richter

 

[Bengt Richter]

Why not submit that as a patch to win32all <wink>?

Mark.

You mean just posting to c.l.py doesn't go anywhere? ;-)

Anyway, don't know how to submit path to win32all. Plus how do you test something like that?

Already the 0 for percentage of memory in use that I got seemed funny, but maybe
it's a percentage of total possible maxed-out page file virtual.

Seems like it needs a little ageing at least? I thought someone might spot something.

I meant to look into win32all, but this is all the further I got ;-/

03-05-31 16:24 3,971,152 E:\DownLoad\Python\win32all-152.exe

Regards,
Bengt Richter