psutil is a pypi library with a maintainer paid by Tidelift

The maintainers of psutil get paid by Tidelift to ensure psutil meets standardized secure software development practices.

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You can feel confident bringing psutil into your application’s dependency tree because the maintainers of psutil are paid by Tidelift to ensure their open source projects follow standardized secure software development practices.

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psutil (process and system utilities) is a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, sensors) in Python.

psutil is useful mainly for system monitoring, profiling and limiting process resources and management of running processes. It implements many functionalities offered by UNIX command line tools such as: ps, top, lsof, netstat, ifconfig, who, df, kill, free, nice, ionice, iostat, iotop, uptime, pidof, tty, taskset, pmap.

psutil provides an interface with all the PC resources and processes, which helps gather data on a specific resource or manage a resource according to its state. Here are some cool things psutil can do:

Gather info on CPU boot time
Learn about disk space and memory state
Assess how many seconds of battery life is left
Measure the current CPU temperature

psutil has approximately 12 million downloads a month, and there are over 10,000 open source projects on GitHub that depend on psutil.

Tidelift works directly with the maintainer of psutil, Giampaolo RodolĂ , to offer maintenance, code improvement, license verification, and security updates so you can use psutil for running processes and system utilization in your app.

You can learn more about psutil on the project repo.

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