psutil, process and system utilities for Python

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psutil is a cross-platform library for retrieving information about running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, sensors) in Python. It is useful mainly for system monitoring, profiling, limiting process resources, and managing running processes. It implements many functionalities offered by UNIX command line tool such as ps, top, free, iotop, netstat, ifconfig, lsof and others (see shell equivalents). psutil supports the following platforms: Linux Windows macOS FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD Sun Solaris AIX Adoption psutil is among the top 100 most-downloaded packages on PyPI, with 340+ million downloads per month, 770,000+ GitHub repositories using it, and 16,000+ packages depending on it. See more on GitHub.