Source code for hal.profile.mem

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""Profile OS memory """

import gc
import os

import psutil


def get_memory_usage():
    """Gets RAM memory usage

    :return: MB of memory used by this process
    """
    process = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
    mem = process.memory_info().rss
    return mem / (1024 * 1024)


def force_garbage_collect():
    """Releases memory used"""
    gc.collect()