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- 2stackoverflow.com/questions/774556/…muru– muru2017-07-07 04:49:50 +00:00Commented Jul 7, 2017 at 4:49
- 2Also related, if not a duplicate: unix.stackexchange.com/q/164653/85039Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy– Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy2017-07-07 08:33:15 +00:00Commented Jul 7, 2017 at 8:33
- Why exactly do you ask? Why do you care more about physical RAM than about virtual address space consumed by your python process?Basile Starynkevitch– Basile Starynkevitch2017-07-08 06:34:02 +00:00Commented Jul 8, 2017 at 6:34
- @BasileStarynkevitch There's nothing in the question that indicates that the user only wants to know about physical RAM.pipe– pipe2017-07-08 07:18:13 +00:00Commented Jul 8, 2017 at 7:18
- 1RAM is only physical. It is a concrete device. Virtual memory (or just memory) is an abstraction. There is no such thing as "non-physical" RAM, and we generally don't care about RAM, we care about (virtual) memory. OP could have asked "how much memory was used"Basile Starynkevitch– Basile Starynkevitch2017-07-08 07:21:55 +00:00Commented Jul 8, 2017 at 7:21
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