ps_mem.py

Nice -- it's good to see something like this that has long been a natural niche for Perl.

See also http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

Doesn't work on OS X since Darwin hasn't implemented /proc. But Amit Singh has some pretty interesting information about hacking together something similar.

http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter11/procfs/

Does anyone know of a good method for determining memory usage within a python application?

Wow github is slow at present. The latest script is also at:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py

I've used this for years, it's one of the first things I throw onto a new server. Simply fantastic.

Amazed at the laziness these on HN these days.