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system_query
Comprehensive and concise system information querying tool.
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The goal is to gather all relevant:
- hardware information (processors, accelerators, memory, networks, drives)
- static operating system information (name, version, hostname)
- runtime information (environment, libraries, system load, etc.)
and provide them in a concise form that's both machine- and human-readable.
Another important goal is to also be fail-safe, even with unexpected hardware configurations,
low-level tool errors and deal with incomplete information.
You can use system-query as a library and as a command-line tool.
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Motivation
Where am I running?
One of the main motivations for creating system-query is to assist with answering the question
"what is the actual hardware and software configuration of the system I'm using?"
regardless of the official specification.
How to rerun this experiment?
The system-query was also created to assist with the computational experiment reproducibility
and verification of results. Only if you know exactly where you ran your experiment,
you can reason about its results and be able to reproduce them.
Using
Installing system-query doesn't enable all the features by default. Some of the query functions
will work only on some systems. To attempt installation with all features enables,
run :bash:pip3 install system-query[all]
. If something brakes, you can narrow down the features
by typing a feature scope instead of all
.
You can choose from cpu
, gpu
, hdd
, ram
and swap
.
E.g. :bash:pip3 install system-query[gpu]
. You can also select more than one feature
at the same time, e.g. :bash:pip3 install system-query[cpu,hdd,ram]
.
As library
.. code:: python
In [1]: from system_query import query_cpu
query_cpu()
Out[1]: {'brand': 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz',
'clock': 1771.0370000000003,
'clock_max': 3900.0,
'clock_min': 1600.0,
'logical_cores': 8,
'physical_cores': 4}
More examples in <examples.ipynb>
_.
system_query.query_all()
This will launch all below functions and assemble results into a dictionary.
system_query.query_cpu()
To be able to see details like cache size, clock speed and core counts,
install Python packages :bash:pint
and :bash:psutil
.
system_query.query_gpus()
To be able to see GPUs in the system, make sure you have CUDA installed
and install Python package :bash:`pycuda`.
system_query.query_hdds()
To be able to see HDDs in the system, make sure you have libudev installed
and install Python package :bash:pyudev
.
system_query.query_ram()
To be able to see amount of memory, install Python package :bash:`psutil`.
system_query.query_software()
This will attempt to gather version information of various common programs,
assuming their executables are in system path.
system_query.query_swap()
To be able to see amount of swap space, install Python package ``psutil``.
.. code:: python
In [9]: system_query.query_swap()
Out[9]: {'total': 0}
As command-line tool
--------------------
Below will run :python:`system_query.query_all()` and output results to stdout:
.. code:: bash
$ python3 -m system_query
{'cpu': {'brand': 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz',
'clock': 1725.031125,
'clock_max': 3900.0,
'clock_min': 1600.0,
'logical_cores': 8,
'physical_cores': 4},
'gpus': [],
'host': 'TestMachine',
'os': 'Linux-4.4.0-109-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid',
'ram': {'total': 33701269504},
'swap': {'total': 0}}
Please use ``-h`` to see usage information:
.. code::
$ python3 -m system_query -h
usage: system_query [-h] [-s {all,cpu,gpu,ram,swap}] [-f {raw,json}]
[-t TARGET] [--version]
Comprehensive and concise system information tool. Query a given hardware
and/or software scope of your system and get results in human- and machine-
readable formats.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s {all,cpu,gpu,ram,swap}, --scope {all,cpu,gpu,ram,swap}
Scope of the query (default: all)
-f {raw,json}, --format {raw,json}
Format of the results of the query. (default: raw)
-t TARGET, --target TARGET
File path where to write the results of the query.
Special values: "stdout" and "stderr" to write to
stdout and stderr, respectively. (default: stdout)
--version show program's version number and exit
Copyright 2017-2023 by the contributors, Apache License 2.0,
https://github.com/mbdevpl/system-query
Requirements
============
Python version 3.9 or later.
Python libraries as specified in `requirements.txt <https://github.com/mbdevpl/system-query/blob/v0.4.0/requirements.txt>`_.
Recommended (but optional) packages are listed in `<requirements_optional.txt>`_.
Building and running tests additionally requires packages listed in `requirements_test.txt <https://github.com/mbdevpl/system-query/blob/v0.4.0/requirements_test.txt>`_.
Tested on Linux, macOS and Windows.
Additionally, for all features to work you should have the following libraries
installed in your system:
* CUDA
* libudev
Contributors
============
Aleksandr Drozd
Emil Vatai
Mateusz Bysiek
For licensing information, please see `LICENSE <https://github.com/mbdevpl/system-query/blob/v0.4.0/LICENSE>`_ and `NOTICE <https://github.com/mbdevpl/system-query/blob/v0.4.0/NOTICE>`_.