"rtheiss" <rt*****@yahoo.com> writes:
Hi Folks,
This is hopefully an easy question. I would like to be able to check
available system memory on a WinXP machine from within python. I've
checked the docs in the win32 modules, read the Python Cookbook, and
tried the Python Essential Reference.
No luck.
Any ideas?
Many Thanks.
Bob
P.S. using v2.2
Here is a simple script which calls the GlobalMemoryStatus function:
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from ctypes import *
from ctypes.wintypes import DWORD
SIZE_T = c_ulong
class _MEMORYSTATUS(Structure):
_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)
memstatus = _MEMORYSTATUS()
windll.kernel32.GlobalMemoryStatus(byref(memstatus ))
memstatus.show()
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On my machine, it prints this:
dwLength 32
dwMemoryLength 63
dwTotalPhys 535609344
dwAvailPhys 198139904
dwTotalPageFile 907055104
dwAvailPageFile 642375680
dwTotalVirtual 2147352576
dwAvailVirtualPhys 2117771264
See the MSDN docs for GlobalMemoryStatus to learn what the fields mean,
and <http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes> for the ctypes
module.
Thomas
