alram

Alram - Alarm for RAM, when available memory is below threshold, with optional task killer.

TL;DR Free RAM monitor.

For Linux.

What?

It will show you warning when memory is below defined threshold. If you define kill list - it will kill those processes, when above happens.

Why?

I drive without SWAP file, because I can. Which is OK in 80% of cases. But sometimes I forget about it, and I saturate memory. And this is a problem. So better to kill non important processes, than to hard restart.

And because it is never too late to write first program in C.

How?

1. Build yourself: make or install from AUR: paru alram-alarm-for-ram
2. systemctl --user enable alram.service --now or alram

Config

Create ~/.config/alram.conf with:

# If your free RAM will drop below this percent, I will show notification
OCCUPIED_RAM_THRESHOLD=7
# Check every seconds
POLL_FREQUENCY=2
# Uncomment, to kill processes in case of low memory situation. 
#PROCEESES_TO_KILL=["spotify","slack","webstorm"]

Contributions

Are welcomed

BTW.

I use Arch.