Edit file File name : instperf Content :#!/usr/libexec/platform-python import logging from subprocess import Popen, PIPE import time # grab the top five memory consuming processes, returning them in a string of # of the format: # # name1:kB1,name2:kB2,...,name5:kB5 def topProcesses(): output = Popen(["ps", "-eo", "comm,rss", "--sort", "-rss", "--no-headers"], stdout=PIPE, universal_newlines=True).communicate()[0] top5 = output.split("\n")[:5] return ",".join("%s:%s" % (proc[0], proc[1]) for proc in (s.split() for s in top5)) def logit(): buffers = 0 cached = 0 memTotal = 0 memFree = 0 swapTotal = 0 swapFree = 0 with open("/proc/meminfo") as f: for line in f.readlines(): if line.startswith("Buffers:"): buffers = line.split()[1] elif line.startswith("Cached:"): cached = line.split()[1] elif line.startswith("MemTotal:"): memTotal = line.split()[1] elif line.startswith("MemFree:"): memFree = line.split()[1] elif line.startswith("SwapTotal:"): swapTotal = line.split()[1] elif line.startswith("SwapFree:"): swapFree = line.split()[1] d = {"memUsed": int(memTotal)-int(memFree)-int(cached)-int(buffers), "swapUsed": int(swapTotal)-int(swapFree), "procs": topProcesses()} mem_logger.debug("%(memUsed)d %(swapUsed)d %(procs)s", d) mem_logger = logging.getLogger("memLog") mem_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) handler = logging.FileHandler("/tmp/memory.dat") handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s %(message)s", "%H:%M:%S")) mem_logger.addHandler(handler) while True: logit() time.sleep(1) Save