psutil 5.6.2 is out. It implements an emulation of os.getloadavg() on Windows, kindly contributed by Ammar Askar, who originally implemented it for CPython's test suite.
This idea has been floating around for quite a while. The first proposal dates back to 2010, when psutil was still hosted on Google Code, and it popped up multiple times over the years. There's a bunch of info online mentioning the pieces you'd theoretically use (the so-called System Processor Queue Length), but I couldn't find any real implementation. A quick search suggests there's real demand for this, but very few tools provide it natively (the only ones I could find are sFlowTrend and Zabbix). So I'm glad this finally landed in psutil / Python.
Other improvements and bugfixes in psutil 5.6.2¶
The full list is in the changelog. A couple worth mentioning:
- #1476: ability to set a process's high I/O priority on Windows.
- #1458: colorized test output. Nobody will use this directly, but it's nice and I'm porting it to other projects I maintain (e.g. pyftpdlib). Good candidate for a small PyPI module that could also include the unittest extensions I've been re-implementing piece by piece:
About me¶
I'm currently in China (Shenzhen) for a mix of vacation and work, and I will likely take a break from Open Source for a while (about 2.5 months), during which I'll also go to the Philippines and Japan.