Alan Gauld wrote: >> shell out to perform the top command, parse the results, and report >> those values to the job controller. > > > I'd use vmstat rather than top since top is intended to run > contuinuously whereas vmstat by default just returns a single line > snapshot. > > I don't know of any native python mechanism for obtaining cpu usage. > > Alan G
vmstat is a beautiful thing. Although as I mentioned in reply to others who responded to my question that top can run just once, top actually provides much more information than I am intending to use, making it seem a little wasteful. vmstat is much more focused on exactly the information I want. Although I am using linux pretty much exclusively these days, there's still a lot that I don't know and I wasn't aware that it existed. Thanks ds _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
