Observed arrival · 2026-11-08
A RAM monitor with Sam Altman on the mailing list
A Linux bash script checks available memory and, when more than 10% is free, prepares a daily email to Sam Altman.
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- Linux users who enjoy a memory-monitoring joke
- Worth noticing
- The dry run prints the proposed email, and the script counts reclaimable cache as available RAM.
Field notes
The page gives clone and shell commands for running the script and says it can be scheduled with cron. Its memory calculation uses MemTotal minus MemAvailable, counting free RAM and reclaimable cache as available. The dry-run mode reads the machine’s memory figures and prints the message instead of emailing it; the page also shows a sample with figures such as 8.6 GiB available.
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