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Using os.sysconf¶

Notice that this ways only works on Linux but not on macOS or Windows.

Get physical memory in bytes.

Use the resource Library¶

Please refer to Hands on the resource Module in Python for more details.

Use the tracemalloc Library¶

https://docs.python.org/3/library/tracemalloc.html#module-tracemalloc

The tracemalloc module is a debug tool to trace memory blocks allocated by Python. It provides the following information:

• Traceback where an object was allocated
• Statistics on allocated memory blocks per filename and per line number: total size, number and average size of allocated memory blocks