"""Functions for getting memory usage of Windows processes.""" __all__ = ['get_current_process', 'get_memory_info', 'get_memory_usage'] import ctypes from ctypes import wintypes GetCurrentProcess = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetCurrentProcess GetCurrentProcess.argtypes = [] GetCurrentProcess.restype = wintypes.HANDLE SIZE_T = ctypes.c_size_t class PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX(ctypes.Structure): _fields_ = [ ('cb', wintypes.DWORD), ('PageFaultCount', wintypes.DWORD), ('PeakWorkingSetSize', SIZE_T), ('WorkingSetSize', SIZE_T), ('QuotaPeakPagedPoolUsage', SIZE_T), ('QuotaPagedPoolUsage', SIZE_T), ('QuotaPeakNonPagedPoolUsage', SIZE_T), ('QuotaNonPagedPoolUsage', SIZE_T), ('PagefileUsage', SIZE_T), ('PeakPagefileUsage', SIZE_T), ('PrivateUsage', SIZE_T), ] GetProcessMemoryInfo = ctypes.windll.psapi.GetProcessMemoryInfo GetProcessMemoryInfo.argtypes = [ wintypes.HANDLE, ctypes.POINTER(PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX), wintypes.DWORD, ] GetProcessMemoryInfo.restype = wintypes.BOOL def get_current_process(): """Return handle to current process.""" return GetCurrentProcess() def get_memory_info(process=None): """Return Win32 process memory counters structure as a dict.""" if process is None: process = get_current_process() counters = PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX() ret = GetProcessMemoryInfo(process, ctypes.byref(counters), ctypes.sizeof(counters)) if not ret: raise ctypes.WinError() info = dict((name, getattr(counters, name)) for name, _ in counters._fields_) return info def get_memory_usage(process=None): """Return this process's memory usage in bytes.""" info = get_memory_info(process=process) return info['PrivateUsage'] if __name__ == '__main__': import pprint pprint.pprint(get_memory_info())