resource — Resource usage information
This module provides basic mechanisms for measuring and controlling system resources utilized by a program.
Symbolic constants are used to specify particular system resources and to request usage information about either the current process or its children.
An OSError
is raised on syscall failure.
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exception resource.error
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A deprecated alias of
OSError
.
Resource Limits
Resources usage can be limited using the setrlimit()
function described below. Each resource is controlled by a pair of limits: a soft limit and a hard limit. The soft limit is the current limit, and may be lowered or raised by a process over time. The soft limit can never exceed the hard limit. The hard limit can be lowered to any value greater than the soft limit, but not raised. (Only processes with the effective UID of the super-user can raise a hard limit.)
The specific resources that can be limited are system dependent. They are described in the getrlimit(2) man page. The resources listed below are supported when the underlying operating system supports them; resources which cannot be checked or controlled by the operating system are not defined in this module for those platforms.
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resource.RLIM_INFINITY
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Constant used to represent the limit for an unlimited resource.
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resource.getrlimit(resource)
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Returns a tuple
(soft, hard)
with the current soft and hard limits of resource. RaisesValueError
if an invalid resource is specified, orerror
if the underlying system call fails unexpectedly.
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resource.setrlimit(resource, limits)
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Sets new limits of consumption of resource. The limits argument must be a tuple
(soft, hard)
of two integers describing the new limits. A value ofRLIM_INFINITY
can be used to request a limit that is unlimited.Raises
ValueError
if an invalid resource is specified, if the new soft limit exceeds the hard limit, or if a process tries to raise its hard limit. Specifying a limit ofRLIM_INFINITY
when the hard or system limit for that resource is not unlimited will result in aValueError
. A process with the effective UID of super-user can request any valid limit value, including unlimited, butValueError
will still be raised if the requested limit exceeds the system imposed limit.setrlimit
may also raiseerror
if the underlying system call fails.VxWorks only supports setting
RLIMIT_NOFILE
.Raises an auditing event
resource.setrlimit
with argumentsresource
,limits
.
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resource.prlimit(pid, resource[, limits])
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Combines
setrlimit()
andgetrlimit()
in one function and supports to get and set the resources limits of an arbitrary process. If pid is 0, then the call applies to the current process. resource and limits have the same meaning as insetrlimit()
, except that limits is optional.When limits is not given the function returns the resource limit of the process pid. When limits is given the resource limit of the process is set and the former resource limit is returned.
Raises
ProcessLookupError
when pid can’t be found andPermissionError
when the user doesn’t haveCAP_SYS_RESOURCE
for the process.Raises an auditing event
resource.prlimit
with argumentspid
,resource
,limits
.Availability: Linux 2.6.36 or later with glibc 2.13 or later.
New in version 3.4.
These symbols define resources whose consumption can be controlled using the setrlimit()
and getrlimit()
functions described below. The values of these symbols are exactly the constants used by C programs.
The Unix man page for getrlimit(2) lists the available resources. Note that not all systems use the same symbol or same value to denote the same resource. This module does not attempt to mask platform differences — symbols not defined for a platform will not be available from this module on that platform.
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resource.RLIMIT_CORE
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The maximum size (in bytes) of a core file that the current process can create. This may result in the creation of a partial core file if a larger core would be required to contain the entire process image.
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resource.RLIMIT_CPU
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The maximum amount of processor time (in seconds) that a process can use. If this limit is exceeded, a
SIGXCPU
signal is sent to the process. (See thesignal
module documentation for information about how to catch this signal and do something useful, e.g. flush open files to disk.)
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resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE
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The maximum size of a file which the process may create.
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resource.RLIMIT_DATA
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The maximum size (in bytes) of the process’s heap.
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resource.RLIMIT_STACK
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The maximum size (in bytes) of the call stack for the current process. This only affects the stack of the main thread in a multi-threaded process.
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resource.RLIMIT_RSS
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The maximum resident set size that should be made available to the process.
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resource.RLIMIT_NPROC
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The maximum number of processes the current process may create.
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resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE
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The maximum number of open file descriptors for the current process.
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resource.RLIMIT_OFILE
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The BSD name for
RLIMIT_NOFILE
.
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resource.RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
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The maximum address space which may be locked in memory.
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resource.RLIMIT_VMEM
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The largest area of mapped memory which the process may occupy.
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resource.RLIMIT_AS
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The maximum area (in bytes) of address space which may be taken by the process.
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resource.RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE
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The number of bytes that can be allocated for POSIX message queues.
Availability: Linux 2.6.8 or later.
New in version 3.4.
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resource.RLIMIT_NICE
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The ceiling for the process’s nice level (calculated as 20 - rlim_cur).
Availability: Linux 2.6.12 or later.
New in version 3.4.
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resource.RLIMIT_RTPRIO
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The ceiling of the real-time priority.
Availability: Linux 2.6.12 or later.
New in version 3.4.
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resource.RLIMIT_RTTIME
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The time limit (in microseconds) on CPU time that a process can spend under real-time scheduling without making a blocking syscall.
Availability: Linux 2.6.25 or later.
New in version 3.4.
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resource.RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
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The number of signals which the process may queue.
Availability: Linux 2.6.8 or later.
New in version 3.4.
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resource.RLIMIT_SBSIZE
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The maximum size (in bytes) of socket buffer usage for this user. This limits the amount of network memory, and hence the amount of mbufs, that this user may hold at any time.
Availability: FreeBSD 9 or later.
New in version 3.4.
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resource.RLIMIT_SWAP
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The maximum size (in bytes) of the swap space that may be reserved or used by all of this user id’s processes. This limit is enforced only if bit 1 of the vm.overcommit sysctl is set. Please see tuning(7) for a complete description of this sysctl.
Availability: FreeBSD 9 or later.
New in version 3.4.
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resource.RLIMIT_NPTS
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The maximum number of pseudo-terminals created by this user id.
Availability: FreeBSD 9 or later.
New in version 3.4.
Resource Usage
These functions are used to retrieve resource usage information:
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resource.getrusage(who)
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This function returns an object that describes the resources consumed by either the current process or its children, as specified by the who parameter. The who parameter should be specified using one of the
RUSAGE_*
constants described below.A simple example:
PythonCopy Codefrom resource import * import time # a non CPU-bound task time.sleep(3) print(getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF)) # a CPU-bound task for i in range(10 ** 8): _ = 1 + 1 print(getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF))
The fields of the return value each describe how a particular system resource has been used, e.g. amount of time spent running is user mode or number of times the process was swapped out of main memory. Some values are dependent on the clock tick internal, e.g. the amount of memory the process is using.
For backward compatibility, the return value is also accessible as a tuple of 16 elements.
The fields
ru_utime
andru_stime
of the return value are floating point values representing the amount of time spent executing in user mode and the amount of time spent executing in system mode, respectively. The remaining values are integers. Consult the getrusage(2) man page for detailed information about these values. A brief summary is presented here:Index
Field
Resource
0
ru_utime
time in user mode (float seconds)
1
ru_stime
time in system mode (float seconds)
2
ru_maxrss
maximum resident set size
3
ru_ixrss
shared memory size
4
ru_idrss
unshared memory size
5
ru_isrss
unshared stack size
6
ru_minflt
page faults not requiring I/O
7
ru_majflt
page faults requiring I/O
8
ru_nswap
number of swap outs
9
ru_inblock
block input operations
10
ru_oublock
block output operations
11
ru_msgsnd
messages sent
12
ru_msgrcv
messages received
13
ru_nsignals
signals received
14
ru_nvcsw
voluntary context switches
15
ru_nivcsw
involuntary context switches
This function will raise a
ValueError
if an invalid who parameter is specified. It may also raiseerror
exception in unusual circumstances.
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resource.getpagesize()
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Returns the number of bytes in a system page. (This need not be the same as the hardware page size.)
The following RUSAGE_*
symbols are passed to the getrusage()
function to specify which processes information should be provided for.
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resource.RUSAGE_SELF
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Pass to
getrusage()
to request resources consumed by the calling process, which is the sum of resources used by all threads in the process.
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resource.RUSAGE_CHILDREN
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Pass to
getrusage()
to request resources consumed by child processes of the calling process which have been terminated and waited for.
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resource.RUSAGE_BOTH
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Pass to
getrusage()
to request resources consumed by both the current process and child processes. May not be available on all systems.
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resource.RUSAGE_THREAD
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Pass to
getrusage()
to request resources consumed by the current thread. May not be available on all systems.New in version 3.2.
License
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Licensed under the PSF License.
https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/resource.html