Use system-level values for Windows virtual memory

Submitting this as a draft PR as I believe it will address #2074. I do not have either a C or Python development environment to test these changes, so they are provided in the hopes someone else can test and confirm they fix the issue. There's probably some room to simplify the code with temporary variables to reduce redundancy. For background, I have implemented precisely this logic in my own (Java-based) project [here](https://github.com/oshi/oshi/blob/3bb9eafbe2062edad4108b7b12501b1f9be27361/oshi-core/src/main/java/oshi/hardware/platform/windows/WindowsVirtualMemory.java#L110-L118) and [here](https://github.com/oshi/oshi/blob/3bb9eafbe2062edad4108b7b12501b1f9be27361/oshi-core/src/main/java/oshi/hardware/platform/windows/WindowsGlobalMemory.java#L253-L263) following a detailed investigation in oshi/oshi#1182 Signed-off-by: Daniel Widdis <widdis@gmail.com>
giampaolo · Oct 20, 2022 · 195b01d · 195b01d
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diff --git a/psutil/_psutil_windows.c b/psutil/_psutil_windows.c
@@ -610,20 +610,23 @@ psutil_proc_memory_uss(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
  */
 static PyObject *
 psutil_virtual_mem(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
-    MEMORYSTATUSEX memInfo;
-    memInfo.dwLength = sizeof(MEMORYSTATUSEX);
-
-    if (! GlobalMemoryStatusEx(&memInfo)) {
+    unsigned long long totalPhys, availPhys, totalSys, availSys, pageSize;
+    PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION perfInfo;
+    if (! GetPerformanceInfo(&perfInfo, sizeof(PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION))) {
         PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
         return NULL;
     }
-    return Py_BuildValue("(LLLLLL)",
-                         memInfo.ullTotalPhys,      // total
-                         memInfo.ullAvailPhys,      // avail
-                         memInfo.ullTotalPageFile,  // total page file
-                         memInfo.ullAvailPageFile,  // avail page file
-                         memInfo.ullTotalVirtual,   // total virtual
-                         memInfo.ullAvailVirtual);  // avail virtual
+    // values are size_t, widen to long long
+    pageSize = perfInfo.PageSize;
+    totalPhys = perfInfo.PhysicalTotal * pageSize;
+    availPhys = perfInfo.PhysicalAvailable * pageSize;
+    totalSys = perfInfo.CommitLimit * pageSize;
+    availSys = totalSys - perfInfo.CommitTotal * pageSize;
+    return Py_BuildValue("(LLLL)",
+                         totalPhys,
+                         availPhys,
+                         totalSys,
+                         availSys);
 }
 
 

diff --git a/psutil/_pswindows.py b/psutil/_pswindows.py
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def getpagesize():
 def virtual_memory():
     """System virtual memory as a namedtuple."""
     mem = cext.virtual_mem()
-    totphys, availphys, totpagef, availpagef, totvirt, freevirt = mem
+    totphys, availphys, totsys, availsys = mem
     #
     total = totphys
     avail = availphys
@@ -248,8 +248,7 @@ def swap_memory():
     total_system = mem[2]
     free_system = mem[3]
 
-    # Despite the name PageFile refers to total system memory here
-    # thus physical memory values need to be subtracted to get swap values
+    # physical memory values need to be substracted to get swap values
     total = total_system - total_phys
     free = min(total, free_system - free_phys)
     used = total - free