get_current_mem_usage¶
- lsst.utils.usage.get_current_mem_usage() tuple[astropy.units.quantity.Quantity, astropy.units.quantity.Quantity] ¶
Report current memory usage.
- Returns:
- usage_main
astropy.units.Quantity
Current memory usage of the calling process expressed in bytes.
- usage_child
astropy.units.Quantity
Current memory usage of the child processes (zero if there are none) expressed in bytes.
- usage_main
Notes
Function reports current memory usage using resident set size as a proxy. As such the values it reports are capped at available physical RAM and may not reflect the actual memory allocated to the process and its children.