psutil virtual memory units of measurement?

Question

When running psutil.virtual_memory() i'm getting output like this:

    >>psutil.virtual_memory()
    vmem(total=8374149120L, available=1247768576L)

But what unit of measurement are these values? The documentation simply claims that its the "total physical memory available" but nothing more. I'm trying to translate it into values that the user can actually relate to (ie GBs).

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

why not use bit shift operator: if you want to display in human readable way, just like this!

values = psutil.virtual_memory()

display in MB format

total = values.total >> 20

display in GB format

total = values.total >> 30

Answer 2

1024^3 = Byte to Gigabyte
So I think this work:

import psutil
memory = psutil.virtual_memory().total / (1024.0 ** 3)
print(memory)