#!/usr/bin/env python # This tool lists processes that lock memory pages from swapping to disk. import re import subprocess import psutil SUMMARY_REGEX = re.compile(r".*\s+(?P[\d]+)\s+KB") def main(): try: print _get_report() except Exception as e: print "Failure listing processes locking memory: %s" % str(e) def _get_report(): mlock_users = [] for proc in psutil.process_iter(): pid = proc.pid # sadly psutil does not expose locked pages info, that's why we # call to pmap and parse the output here try: out = subprocess.check_output(['pmap', '-XX', str(pid)]) except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: # 42 means process just vanished, which is ok if e.returncode == 42: continue raise last_line = out.splitlines()[-1] # some processes don't provide a memory map, for example those # running as kernel services, so we need to skip those that don't # match result = SUMMARY_REGEX.match(last_line) if result: locked = int(result.group('locked')) if locked: mlock_users.append({'name': proc.name(), 'pid': pid, 'locked': locked}) # produce a single line log message with per process mlock stats if mlock_users: return "; ".join( "[%(name)s (pid:%(pid)s)]=%(locked)dKB" % args # log heavy users first for args in sorted(mlock_users, key=lambda d: d['locked']) ) else: return "no locked memory" if __name__ == "__main__": main()