sysinfo

sysinfo is a crate used to get a system's information.

Supported Oses

It currently supports the following OSes (alphabetically sorted):

• Android
• iOS
• Linux
• macOS
• Raspberry Pi
• Windows

You can still use sysinfo on non-supported OSes, it'll simply do nothing and always return empty values. You can check in your program directly if an OS is supported by checking the [SystemExt::IS_SUPPORTED] constant.

The minimum-supported version of rustc is 1.54.

Usage

⚠️ Before any attempt to read the different structs' information, you need to update them to get up-to-date information because for most of them, it works on diff between the current value and the old one.

Which is why, it's much better to keep the same instance of [System] around instead of recreating it multiple times.

You have an example into the examples folder. You can run it with cargo run --example simple.

Otherwise, here is a little code sample:

use sysinfo::{NetworkExt, NetworksExt, ProcessExt, System, SystemExt};

// Please note that we use "new_all" to ensure that all list of
// components, network interfaces, disks and users are already
// filled!
let mut sys = System::new_all();

// First we update all information of our `System` struct.
sys.refresh_all();

// We display all disks' information:
println!("=> disks:");
for disk in sys.disks() {
    println!("{:?}", disk);
}

// Network interfaces name, data received and data transmitted:
println!("=> networks:");
for (interface_name, data) in sys.networks() {
    println!("{}: {}/{} B", interface_name, data.received(), data.transmitted());
}

// Components temperature:
println!("=> components:");
for component in sys.components() {
    println!("{:?}", component);
}

println!("=> system:");
// RAM and swap information:
println!("total memory: {} KB", sys.total_memory());
println!("used memory : {} KB", sys.used_memory());
println!("total swap  : {} KB", sys.total_swap());
println!("used swap   : {} KB", sys.used_swap());

// Display system information:
println!("System name:             {:?}", sys.name());
println!("System kernel version:   {:?}", sys.kernel_version());
println!("System OS version:       {:?}", sys.os_version());
println!("System host name:        {:?}", sys.host_name());

// Number of processors:
println!("NB processors: {}", sys.processors().len());

// Display processes ID, name na disk usage:
for (pid, process) in sys.processes() {
    println!("[{}] {} {:?}", pid, process.name(), process.disk_usage());
}

By default, sysinfo uses multiple threads. However, this can increase the memory usage on some platforms (macOS for example). The behavior can be disabled by setting default-features = false in Cargo.toml (which disables the multithread cargo feature).

Running on Raspberry Pi

It'll be difficult to build on Raspberry Pi. A good way-around is to cross-build, then send the executable to your Raspberry Pi.

First install the arm toolchain, for example on Ubuntu:

> sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib-arm-linux-gnueabihf

Then configure cargo to use the corresponding toolchain:

cat << EOF > ~/.cargo/config
[target.armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf]
linker = "arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc"
EOF

Finally, cross compile:

rustup target add armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
cargo build --target=armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf

Linux on Docker & Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Virtual Linux systems, such as those run through Docker and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), do not receive host hardware information via /sys/class/hwmon or /sys/class/thermal. As such, querying for components may return no results (or unexpected results) when using this library on virtual systems.

Use in binaries running inside the macOS or iOS Sandbox/stores

Apple has restrictions as to which APIs can be linked into binaries that are distributed through the app store. By default, sysinfo is not compatible with these restrictions. You can use the apple-app-store feature flag to disable the Apple prohibited features. This also enables the apple-sandbox feature. In the case of applications using the sandbox outside of the app store, the apple-sandbox feature can be used alone to avoid causing policy violations at runtime.

How it works

I wrote a blog post you can find here which explains how sysinfo extracts information on the diffent systems.

C interface

It's possible to use this crate directly from C. Take a look at the Makefile and at the examples/simple.c file.

To build the C example, just run:

> make
> ./simple
# If needed:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=target/release/ ./simple

Benchmarks

You can run the benchmarks locally with rust nightly by doing:

> cargo bench

Here are the current results:

Linux

test bench_new                     ... bench:     182,536 ns/iter (+/- 21,074)
test bench_new_all                 ... bench:  19,911,714 ns/iter (+/- 1,612,109)
test bench_refresh_all             ... bench:   5,649,643 ns/iter (+/- 444,129)
test bench_refresh_components      ... bench:      25,293 ns/iter (+/- 1,748)
test bench_refresh_components_list ... bench:     382,331 ns/iter (+/- 31,620)
test bench_refresh_cpu             ... bench:      13,633 ns/iter (+/- 1,135)
test bench_refresh_disks           ... bench:       2,509 ns/iter (+/- 75)
test bench_refresh_disks_list      ... bench:      51,488 ns/iter (+/- 5,470)
test bench_refresh_memory          ... bench:      12,941 ns/iter (+/- 3,023)
test bench_refresh_networks        ... bench:     256,506 ns/iter (+/- 37,196)
test bench_refresh_networks_list   ... bench:     266,751 ns/iter (+/- 54,535)
test bench_refresh_process         ... bench:     117,372 ns/iter (+/- 8,732)
test bench_refresh_processes       ... bench:   5,125,929 ns/iter (+/- 560,050)
test bench_refresh_system          ... bench:      52,526 ns/iter (+/- 6,786)
test bench_refresh_users_list      ... bench:   2,479,582 ns/iter (+/- 1,063,982)

Windows

test bench_new                     ... bench:   7,119,215 ns/iter (+/- 283,002)
test bench_new_all                 ... bench:  27,364,010 ns/iter (+/- 1,353,879)
test bench_refresh_all             ... bench:   3,125,085 ns/iter (+/- 92,479)
test bench_refresh_components      ... bench:   1,239,478 ns/iter (+/- 45,790)
test bench_refresh_components_list ... bench:   3,197,295 ns/iter (+/- 91,662)
test bench_refresh_cpu             ... bench:      24,973 ns/iter (+/- 1,844)
test bench_refresh_disks           ... bench:      52,321 ns/iter (+/- 1,533)
test bench_refresh_disks_list      ... bench:     114,756 ns/iter (+/- 3,900)
test bench_refresh_memory          ... bench:         581 ns/iter (+/- 25)
test bench_refresh_networks        ... bench:      35,231 ns/iter (+/- 2,210)
test bench_refresh_networks_list   ... bench:     661,170 ns/iter (+/- 56,636)
test bench_refresh_process         ... bench:       1,531 ns/iter (+/- 154)
test bench_refresh_processes       ... bench:   1,070,742 ns/iter (+/- 57,539)
test bench_refresh_system          ... bench:   1,303,291 ns/iter (+/- 44,538)
test bench_refresh_users_list      ... bench:   2,340,562 ns/iter (+/- 83,992)

macOS

test bench_new                     ... bench:      87,569 ns/iter (+/- 11,078)
test bench_new_all                 ... bench:  21,445,081 ns/iter (+/- 523,973)
test bench_refresh_all             ... bench:   1,915,573 ns/iter (+/- 296,132)
test bench_refresh_components      ... bench:     293,904 ns/iter (+/- 63,492)
test bench_refresh_components_list ... bench:     894,462 ns/iter (+/- 161,599)
test bench_refresh_cpu             ... bench:       8,636 ns/iter (+/- 1,244)
test bench_refresh_disks           ... bench:         937 ns/iter (+/- 97)
test bench_refresh_disks_list      ... bench:      25,116 ns/iter (+/- 990)
test bench_refresh_memory          ... bench:       2,172 ns/iter (+/- 67)
test bench_refresh_networks        ... bench:     183,552 ns/iter (+/- 2,253)
test bench_refresh_networks_list   ... bench:     183,623 ns/iter (+/- 11,183)
test bench_refresh_process         ... bench:       5,571 ns/iter (+/- 443)
test bench_refresh_processes       ... bench:     764,125 ns/iter (+/- 28,568)
test bench_refresh_system          ... bench:     333,610 ns/iter (+/- 53,204)
test bench_refresh_users_list      ... bench:  16,816,081 ns/iter (+/- 1,039,374)

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