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Bug tracker at http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues
0.6.1 - 2012-08-16
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 316: process cmdline property now makes a better job at guessing the
process executable from the cmdline.
BUG FIXES
* Issue 316: process exe was resolved in case it was a symlink.
* Issue 318: python 2.4 compatibility was broken.
API CHANGES
* process exe can now return an empty string instead of raising AccessDenied.
* process exe is no longer resolved in case it's a symlink.
0.6.0 - 2012-08-13
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 216: (UNIX) get_connections() UNIX sockets support.
* Issue 220: (BSD) get_connections() has been rewritten in C and no longer
requires lsof.
* Issue 222: (OSX) add support for process cwd.
* Issue 261: process extended memory info.
* Issue 295: (OSX) process executable path is now determined by asking the OS
instead of being guessed from process cmdline.
* Issue 297: (OSX) the Process methods below were always raising AccessDenied
for any process except the current one. Now this is no longer true. Also they
are 2.5x faster.
- name
- get_memory_info()
- get_memory_percent()
- get_cpu_times()
- get_cpu_percent()
- get_num_threads()
* Issue 300: examples/pmap.py script.
* Issue 301: process_iter() now yields processes sorted by their PIDs.
* Issue 302: process number of voluntary and involuntary context switches.
* Issue 303: (Windows) the Process methods below were always raising
AccessDenied for any process not owned by current user. Now this is no longer
true:
- create_time
- get_cpu_times()
- get_cpu_percent()
- get_memory_info()
- get_memory_percent()
- get_num_handles()
- get_io_counters()
* Issue 305: add examples/netstat.py script.
* Issue 311: system memory functions has been refactorized and rewritten and
now provide a more detailed and consistent representation of the system
memory.
New psutil.virtual_memory() function provides the following memory amounts:
- total
- available
- percent
- used
- active (UNIX)
- inactive (UNIX)
- buffers (BSD, Linux)
- cached (BSD, OSX)
- wired (OSX, BSD)
- shared (BSD)
New psutil.swap_memory() provides:
- total
- used
- free
- percent
- sin (no. of bytes the system has swapped in from disk (cumulative))
- sout (no. of bytes the system has swapped out from disk (cumulative))
All old memory-related functions are deprecated.
Also two new example scripts were added: free.py and meminfo.py.
* Issue 312: psutil.network_io_counters() namedtuple includes 4 new fields:
errin, errout dropin and dropout, reflecting the number of packets dropped
and with errors.
BUGFIXES
* Issue 298: (OSX - BSD) memory leak in get_num_fds().
* Issue 299: potential memory leak every time PyList_New(0) is used.
* Issue 303: (Windows) potential heap corruption in get_num_threads() and
get_status() Process methods.
* Issue 305: (BSD) psutil can't compile on FreeBSD 9 due to removal of utmp.h.
* Issue 306: at C level, errors are not checked when invoking Py* functions
which create or manipulate Python objects leading to potential memory related
errors and/or segmentation faults.
* Issue 307: (BSD) values returned by psutil.network_io_counters() are wrong.
* Issue 308: (BSD / Windows) psutil.virtmem_usage() wasn't actually returning
information about swap memory usage as it was supposed to do. It does now.
* Issue 309: get_open_files() might not return files which can not be accessed
due to limited permissions. AccessDenied is now raised instead.
API CHANGES
* psutil.phymem_usage() is deprecated (use psutil.virtual_memory())
* psutil.virtmem_usage() is deprecated (use psutil.swap_memory())
* psutil.phymem_buffers() on Linux is deprecated (use psutil.virtual_memory())
* psutil.cached_phymem() on Linux is deprecated (use psutil.virtual_memory())
* (Windows and BSD) psutil.virtmem_usage() now returns information about swap
memory instead of virtual memory.
0.5.1 - 2012-06-29
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 293: (Windows) process executable path is now determined by asking the
OS instead of being guessed from process cmdline.
BUGFIXES
* Issue 292: (Linux) race condition in process files/threads/connections.
* Issue 294: (Windows) Process CPU affinity is only able to set CPU #0.
0.5.0 - 2012-06-27
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue #195: (Windows) number of handles opened by process.
* Issue #209: psutil.disk_partitions() now provides also mount options.
* Issue #229: list users currently connected on the system (psutil.get_users()).
* Issue #238: (Linux, Windows) process CPU affinity (get and set).
* Issue #242: Process.get_children(recursive=True): return all process
descendants.
* Issue #245: (POSIX) Process.wait() incrementally consumes less CPU cycles.
* Issue #257: (Windows) removed Windows 2000 support.
* Issue #258: (Linux) Process.get_memory_info() is now 0.5x faster.
* Issue #260: process's mapped memory regions. (Windows patch by wj32.64, OSX
patch by Jeremy Whitlock)
* Issue #262: (Windows) psutil.disk_partitions() was slow due to inspecting
the floppy disk drive also when "all" argument was False.
* Issue #273: psutil.get_process_list() is deprecated.
* Issue #274: psutil no longer requires 2to3 at installation time in order to
work with Python 3.
* Issue #278: new Process.as_dict() method.
* Issue #281: ppid, name, exe, cmdline and create_time properties of Process
class are now cached after being accessed.
* Issue #282: psutil.STATUS_* constants can now be compared by using their
string representation.
* Issue #283: speedup Process.is_running() by caching its return value in case
the process is terminated.
* Issue #284: (POSIX) per-process number of opened file descriptors.
* Issue #287: psutil.process_iter() now caches Process instances between calls.
* Issue #290: Process.nice property is deprecated in favor of new get_nice()
and set_nice() methods.
BUGFIXES
* Issue #193: psutil.Popen constructor can throw an exception if the spawned
process terminates quickly.
* Issue #240: (OSX) incorrect use of free() for Process.get_connections().
* Issue #244: (POSIX) Process.wait() can hog CPU resources if called against
a process which is not our children.
* Issue #248: (Linux) psutil.network_io_counters() might return erroneous NIC
names.
* Issue #252: (Windows) process getcwd() erroneously raise NoSuchProcess for
processes owned by another user. It now raises AccessDenied instead.
* Issue #266: (Windows) psutil.get_pid_list() only shows 1024 processes.
(patch by Amoser)
* Issue #267: (OSX) Process.get_connections() - an erroneous remote address
was returned. (Patch by Amoser)
* Issue #272: (Linux) Porcess.get_open_files() - potential race condition can
lead to unexpected NoSuchProcess exception. Also, we can get incorrect
reports of not absolutized path names.
* Issue #275: (Linux) Process.get_io_counters() erroneously raise NoSuchProcess
on old Linux versions. Where not available it now raises NotImplementedError.
* Issue #286: Process.is_running() doesn't actually check whether PID has been
reused.
* Issue #314: Process.get_children() can sometimes return non-children.
API CHANGES
* Process.nice property is deprecated in favor of new get_nice() and set_nice()
methods.
* psutil.get_process_list() is deprecated.
* ppid, name, exe, cmdline and create_time properties of Process class are now
cached after being accessed, meaning NoSuchProcess will no longer be raised
in case the process is gone in the meantime.
* psutil.STATUS_* constants can now be compared by using their string
representation.
0.4.1 - 2011-12-14
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BUGFIXES
* Issue 228: some example scripts were not working with python 3.
* Issue 230: (Windows / OSX) memory leak in Process.get_connections().
* Issue 232: (Linux) psutil.phymem_usage() can report erroneous values which
are different than "free" command.
* Issue 236: (Windows) memory/handle leak in Process's get_memory_info(),
suspend() and resume() methods.
0.4.0 - 2011-10-29
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 150: network I/O counters. (OSX and Windows patch by Jeremy Whitlock)
* Issue 154: (FreeBSD) add support for process getcwd()
* Issue 157: (Windows) provide installer for Python 3.2 64-bit.
* Issue 198: Process.wait(timeout=0) can now be used to make wait() return
immediately.
* Issue 206: disk I/O counters. (OSX and Windows patch by Jeremy Whitlock)
* Issue 213: examples/iotop.py script.
* Issue 217: Process.get_connections() now has a "kind" argument to filter
for connections with different criteria.
* Issue 221: (FreeBSD) Process.get_open_files has been rewritten in C and no
longer relies on lsof.
* Issue 223: examples/top.py script.
* Issue 227: examples/nettop.py script.
BUGFIXES
* Issue 135: (OS X) psutil cannot create Process object
* Issue 144: (Linux) no longer support 0 special PID.
* Issue 188: (Linux) psutil import error on Linux ARM architectures.
* Issue 194: (POSIX) psutil.Process.get_cpu_percent() now reports a percentage
over 100 on multicore processors.
* Issue 197: (Linux) Process.get_connections() is broken on platforms not
supporting IPv6.
* Issue 200: (Linux) psutil.NUM_CPUS not working on armel and sparc
architectures and causing crash on module import.
* Issue 201: (Linux) Process.get_connections() is broken on big-endian
architectures.
* Issue 211: Process instance can unexpectedly raise NoSuchProcess if tested
for equality with another object.
* Issue 218: (Linux) crash at import time on Debian 64-bit because of a missing
line in /proc/meminfo.
* Issue 226: (FreeBSD) crash at import time on FreeBSD 7 and minor.
0.3.0 - 2011-07-08
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 125: system per-cpu percentage utilization and times.
* Issue 163: per-process associated terminal (TTY).
* Issue 171: added get_phymem() and get_virtmem() functions returning system
memory information (total, used, free) and memory percent usage.
total_* avail_* and used_* memory functions are deprecated.
* Issue 172: disk usage statistics.
* Issue 174: mounted disk partitions.
* Issue 179: setuptools is now used in setup.py
BUGFIXES
* Issue 159: SetSeDebug() does not close handles or unset impersonation on
return.
* Issue 164: wait function raises a TimeoutException when a process returns
-1 (Windows).
* Issue 165: process.status raises an unhandled exception.
* Issue 166: get_memory_info() leaks handles hogging system resources.
* Issue 168: psutil.cpu_percent() returns erroneous results when used in
non-blocking mode. (patch by Philip Roberts)
* Issue 178: OSX - Process.get_threads() leaks memory
* Issue 180: Windows - Process's get_num_threads() and get_threads() methods
can raise NoSuchProcess exception while process still exists.
0.2.1 - 2011-03-20
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 64: per-process I/O counters.
* Issue 116: per-process wait() (wait for process to terminate and return its
exit code).
* Issue 134: per-process get_threads() returning information (id, user and
kernel times) about threads opened by process.
* Issue 136: process executable path on FreeBSD is now determined by asking
the kernel instead of guessing it from cmdline[0].
* Issue 137: per-process real, effective and saved user and group ids.
* Issue 140: system boot time.
* Issue 142: per-process get and set niceness (priority).
* Issue 143: per-process status.
* Issue 147: per-process I/O nice (priority) - Linux only.
* Issue 148: psutil.Popen class which tidies up subprocess.Popen and
psutil.Process in a unique interface.
* Issue 152: (OSX) get_process_open_files() implementation has been rewritten
in C and no longer relies on lsof resulting in a 3x speedup.
* Issue 153: (OSX) get_process_connection() implementation has been rewritten
in C and no longer relies on lsof resulting in a 3x speedup.
BUGFIXES
* Issue 83: process cmdline is empty on OSX 64-bit.
* Issue 130: a race condition can cause IOError exception be raised on
Linux if process disappears between open() and subsequent read() calls.
* Issue 145: WindowsError was raised instead of psutil.AccessDenied when using
process resume() or suspend() on Windows.
* Issue 146: 'exe' property on Linux can raise TypeError if path contains NULL
bytes.
* Issue 151: exe and getcwd() for PID 0 on Linux return inconsistent data.
API CHANGES
* Process "uid" and "gid" properties are deprecated in favor of "uids" and
"gids" properties.
0.2.0 - 2010-11-13
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 79: per-process open files.
* Issue 88: total system physical cached memory.
* Issue 88: total system physical memory buffers used by the kernel.
* Issue 91: per-process send_signal() and terminate() methods.
* Issue 95: NoSuchProcess and AccessDenied exception classes now provide "pid",
"name" and "msg" attributes.
* Issue 97: per-process children.
* Issue 98: Process.get_cpu_times() and Process.get_memory_info now return
a namedtuple instead of a tuple.
* Issue 103: per-process opened TCP and UDP connections.
* Issue 107: add support for Windows 64 bit. (patch by cjgohlke)
* Issue 111: per-process executable name.
* Issue 113: exception messages now include process name and pid.
* Issue 114: process username Windows implementation has been rewritten in pure
C and no longer uses WMI resulting in a big speedup. Also, pywin32 is no
longer required as a third-party dependancy. (patch by wj32)
* Issue 117: added support for Windows 2000.
* Issue 123: psutil.cpu_percent() and psutil.Process.cpu_percent() accept a
new 'interval' parameter.
* Issue 129: per-process number of threads.
BUGFIXES
* Issue 80: fixed warnings when installing psutil with easy_install.
* Issue 81: psutil fails to compile with Visual Studio.
* Issue 94: suspend() raises OSError instead of AccessDenied.
* Issue 86: psutil didn't compile against FreeBSD 6.x.
* Issue 102: orphaned process handles obtained by using OpenProcess in C were
left behind every time Process class was instantiated.
* Issue 111: path and name Process properties report truncated or erroneous
values on UNIX.
* Issue 120: cpu_percent() always returning 100% on OS X.
* Issue 112: uid and gid properties don't change if process changes effective
user/group id at some point.
* Issue 126: ppid, uid, gid, name, exe, cmdline and create_time properties are
no longer cached and correctly raise NoSuchProcess exception if the process
disappears.
API CHANGES
* psutil.Process.path property is deprecated and works as an alias for "exe"
property.
* psutil.Process.kill(): signal argument was removed - to send a signal to the
process use send_signal(signal) method instead.
* psutil.Process.get_memory_info() returns a nametuple instead of a tuple.
* psutil.cpu_times() returns a nametuple instead of a tuple.
* New psutil.Process methods: get_open_files(), get_connections(),
send_signal() and terminate().
* ppid, uid, gid, name, exe, cmdline and create_time properties are no longer
cached and raise NoSuchProcess exception if process disappears.
* psutil.cpu_percent() no longer returns immediately (see issue 123).
* psutil.Process.get_cpu_percent() and psutil.cpu_percent() no longer returns
immediately by default (see issue 123).
0.1.3 - 2010-03-02
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 14: per-process username
* Issue 51: per-process current working directory (Windows and Linux only)
* Issue 59: Process.is_running() is now 10 times faster
* Issue 61: added supoprt for FreeBSD 64 bit
* Issue 71: implemented suspend/resume process
* Issue 75: python 3 support
BUGFIXES
* Issue 36: process cpu_times() and memory_info() functions succeeded also for
dead processes while a NoSuchProcess exception is supposed to be raised.
* Issue 48: incorrect size for mib array defined in getcmdargs for BSD
* Issue 49: possible memory leak due to missing free() on error condition on
* Issue 50: fixed getcmdargs() memory fragmentation on BSD
* Issue 55: test_pid_4 was failing on Windows Vista
* Issue 57: some unit tests were failing on systems where no swap memory is
available
* Issue 58: is_running() is now called before kill() to make sure we are going
to kill the correct process.
* Issue 73: virtual memory size reported on OS X includes shared library size
* Issue 77: NoSuchProcess wasn't raised on Process.create_time if kill() was
used first.
0.1.2 - 2009-05-06
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 32: Per-process CPU user/kernel times
* Issue 33: Process create time
* Issue 34: Per-process CPU utilization percentage
* Issue 38: Per-process memory usage (bytes)
* Issue 41: Per-process memory utilization (percent)
* Issue 39: System uptime
* Issue 43: Total system virtual memory
* Issue 46: Total system physical memory
* Issue 44: Total system used/free virtual and physical memory
BUGFIXES
* Issue 36: NoSuchProcess not raised on Windows when accessing timing methods
* Issue 40: test_get_cpu_times() failing on FreeBSD and OS X
* Issue 42: get_memory_percent() raises AccessDenied on Windows
0.1.1 - 2009-03-06
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NEW FEATURES
* Issue 4: FreeBSD support for all functions of psutil
* Issue 9: Process.uid and Process.gid now retrieve process UID and GID.
* Issue 11: Support for parent/ppid - Process.parent property returns a
Process object representing the parent process, and Process.ppid returns
the parent PID.
* Issue 12 & 15: NoSuchProcess exception now raised when creating an object
for a nonexistent process, or when retrieving information about a process
that has gone away.
* Issue 21: AccessDenied exception created for raising access denied errors
from OSError or WindowsError on individual platforms.
* Issue 26: psutil.process_iter() function to iterate over processes as
Process objects with a generator.
* Process objects can now also be compared with == operator for equality
(PID, name, command line are compared).
BUGFIXES
* Issue 16: Special case for Windows' "System Idle Process" (PID 0) which
otherwise would return an "invalid parameter" exception.
* Issue 17: get_process_list() ignores NoSuchProcess and AccessDenied
exceptions during building of the list.
* Issue 22: Process(0).kill() was failing on Windows with an unset exception
* Issue 23: Special case for pid_exists(0)
* Issue 24: Process(0).kill() now raises AccessDenied exception instead of
WindowsError.
* Issue 30: psutil.get_pid_list() was returning two instances of PID 0 on OS
X and FreeBSD platforms.
0.1.0 - 2009-01-27
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* Initial release.